UP Election 2022: Aircraft land on Purvanchal Expressway that PM Modi will open on Tuesday

The Indian Air Force on Sunday landed fighter aircraft on the Purvanchal Expressway in UP's Sultanpur as part of its rehearsal for an airshow on November 16. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 340-km long expressway on Tuesday.

Officials said 30 fighter planes will showcase their might at the newly constructed expressway after Prime Minister Modi dedicates the Purvanchal Expressway to the nation.

According to officials, the prime minister and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will land at this same airstrip in an IAF C-130 Hercules plane on Tuesday. A three-and-a-half-km long stretch of the expressway near Sultanpur has been developed as an airstrip for emergency landing of aircraft.

Three fighter planes had made rounds of the airstrip when Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had arrived in Sultanpur to take stock of preparation for the Tuesday event.

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Adityanath had on Friday said the expressway will prove to be the backbone of Eastern Uttar Pradesh.

"Its inauguration will be in a grand way, accompanied by an air show as a three-and-a-half-km long stretch near Sultanpur has been developed as an airstrip for emergency landing of aircraft," he had said.

Politics has also gained momentum over the new expressway. Slamming the BJP government for credit hunting, former CM Akhilesh Yadav said that aircraft had earlier landed on the Agra Expressway built by his government and BJP was just copying it.

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