LUCKNOW, March 30 -- A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the first phase of the Noida International Airport at Jewar in the presence of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Sunday claimed the project was conceived during her tenure.

In a detailed post shared on X, Mayawati said that not only the blueprint but all essential groundwork for the airport had been initiated when the BSP was in power in Uttar Pradesh.

She claimed that had there been no hurdles from the then Congress-led UPA government at the Centre, the project-like the Yamuna Expressway-would have been completed much earlier during her tenure.

Taking aim at the Samajwadi Party (SP), the BSP chief alleged that the pr...