Lucknow, July 13 -- Taking a sharp dig at the double-engine government over infrastructure quality, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday alleged rampant corruption in major highway projects, claiming that the newly constructed Rs.4,700-crore Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway caved in even before its official inauguration.

In a post on X, targeting both the Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra governments, Yadav questioned whether a "grand corruption competition" was underway in BJP-ruled states, linking the local project's flaws to the issues plaguing the Rs.6,700-crore "Missing Link" project in Maharashtra.

"Expressways are built so that people can drive fast and carefree, not so that they chant God's name all along the route," Yad...