Delhi Congress leaders along with locals today forcibly opened the newly-constructed elevated road from Mukarba Chowk for traffic, alleging that its inauguration had been delayed as Aam Aadmi Party had no time for it and, thereby, caused inconvenience to the people.
"The local residents decided to forcibly inaugurate the elevated road from Mukarba Chowk to Rohini Court and Saraswati Vihar to Mangolpuri Industrial area since the AAP leaders had no time for its inaugural although it was completed many days ago," former Congress MLA Deveder Yadav said.
Yadav, who led the locals and other Congressmen, said the foundation stone of the elevated road was laid down by the then Chief Minister Sheila Dixit in 2012 and that AAP was trying to claim it to be their government's achievement.
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"They had put up hoardings that the elevated road will be completed by December 31, 2015 and it would be inaugurated on January 1, but it was kept closed because the leaders of AAP had no time for its inaugural," he said.
Reacting to the forced "inaugural" of the elevated road, Delhi Transport Minister Gopal Rai accused Congress of indulging in petty issues since it had nothing else to protest against the government.
"They have no other issue so they are doing this. The work on the elevated road had been fastest during the AAP government since its foundation stone was laid," Rai added.
