GREATER NOIDA, March 30 -- Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led government in the state of misusing its power to acquire land for the Noida International Airport at Jewar.

His criticism came a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the airport and accused the previous SP government of using Noida as an "ATM".

On Sunday, at a rally at Mihir Bhoj College in Dadri, Yadav said six of the seven airports recently inaugurated by the BJP government in UP have already shut down. "They should also tell people when they will sell this airport."

He called on farmers to "teach the BJP a lesson", alleging, "The BJP misused the power to inaugurate an...