Nothing done for Ganga in past 5 years: Akhilesh Yadav

Lucknow, March 13

Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi for doing nothing to clean the Ganga, a promise he had made in the run-up to the general election in 2014.

“Swachh Bharat--Failed,” the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister tweeted saying the Modi-led National Ganga Council did not meet even once in the past five years of the NDA rule from 2014-19.

He said 351 stretches of rivers in India were now critically polluted, up from 302 in 2016.

The SP chief said seven of the world’s 10 most polluted cities were in India and the cleaning and sanitation efforts had been left to the lower castes. Thereafter, he called upon people to “vote for Maha Parivartan”.

Yadav has been targeting the BJP and Modi almost on a daily basis, raising a myriad of issues like farmer distress, growing unemployment, failed economy and poor law and order in Uttar Pradesh. IANS