Akhilesh Yadav blames BJP for air pollution in national capital region

Agra | Tuesday | 14th November, 2017

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This election, the Gujarat voters will teach a good lesson to the BJP. To lure votes, the Centre is changing the tax slab of GST, but it won't help them, as demonetization and GST have destroyed many lives." ""The current state government which has been in power for the last eight months has not done anything concrete, whereas we launched UP dial 100 service, expressway, and other services as well," he said.Commenting on Gujarat election, he said, "After civic body polls I'll visit Gujarat. AGRA/FIROZABAD: National president of Samajwadi party and former CM Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday took a dig at the BJP-led central and state governments for not taking appropriate steps to curb severe air pollution in the national capital region as well as in Uttar Pradesh.Akhilesh had come to Farida village of Jasrana area of Firozabad district to inaugurate the statue of former MLA Balbir Singh along with Ramgopal Yadav.Addressing media, he said, "During our regime we planted 50 million trees in a day to increase forest cover, build cycle track to promote eco-friendly transport, but the BJP has failed to take strong steps to curb the pollution both at the Centre and state level..