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Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre “has broken all the records of corruption over the past 75 years”.
Mr. Kejriwal made the comment in a post on X (formerly Twitter), where he tagged a media report, according to which the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India, in an audit report on the ‘Implementation of Phase-1 of Bharatmala Pariyojana’ from 2017-18 to 2020-21 has highlighted the cost escalation in constructing the 29.06 km Dwarka Expressway from ₹18 crore per km to ₹250 crore per km.
Addressing a press conference, AAP MP Sanjay Singh said, “Under the Bharatmala Pariyojana, 75,000 km of roads were to be constructed at the rate of ₹15 crore per km. However, the Modi government increased the cost to ₹25 crore per km, thereby committing a scam worth ₹7.5 lakh crore in the project.”
The party’s national spokesperson Reena Gupta said as per a CAG report, the Centre had spent the money meant for old age pensions on promoting the PM’s image.
Published - August 15, 2023 12:38 am IST
