New Delhi: Political rivalry is playing spoilsport for development of Uttar Pradesh as the Samajwadi Party-led UP government is stonewalling opponent RLD leader Ajit Singh's - also the civil aviation minister - attempts to increase air connectivity in the state.
Since April 2012, 20 letters sent by Singh's ministry to UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav and his office to build airports in nine different cities have been ignored by the state government. This bombardment of requests elicited from Akhikesh Yadav a token response of announcing setting up only two new airports at Agra and Kushinagar as part of a slew of infrastructure initiatives for UP, at the CII's Global Partnership Summit on Monday.
However, the two mooted airports are not from minister Singh's list, which coupled with the delayed response makes analysts interprete it as more of a turf war than a real intention towards development.
29/01/13 Anindya Upadhyay/Times of India
