Corruption in Infrastructure Projects

Recently, a missing link connecting Mumbai and Pune which cost₹ 7,000 crore,

जिसकी कीमत ₹7000 करोड़ थी

was damaged within just ten days of its inauguration.

This means₹ 7,000 crore of the public's money went down the drain.

Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis had inaugurated it.

This is nothing new under the BJP's rule.

Under BJP rule,

Let me give you some examples.

The Buxar railway overbridge, which cost₹ 21– 22 crore, collapsed within

96 hours of its inauguration. Whose government is it?

It is the BJP government in Bihar.

The Duliajan Assam overbridge

Himanta Biswa Sarma had inaugurated it.

It broke within ten days of its inauguration. The Chitrakoot

bridge washed away in the first rain within three months of construction.

₹ 51 crore was spent— whose money was it? The public's.

These are just a few examples.

₹ 7,000 crores were spent on building the Mumbai- Pune missing link,

Whose₹ 7,000 crores were these?

This was₹ 7,000 crores of the general public, who, through their hard work,

their labor, the lower- middle class, the middle class, collect and pay taxes to the

टैक्स इकट्ठा करके सरकार को देता है

government, so that the government can make their lives better and simpler.

And governments engage in so much corruption, especially this current government,

खासकर ये जो सरकार अभी चल रही है,

which comes to power with a so- called badge of honesty,

commits so much corruption that these bridges do not even last for 10 days.

You must have seen that the bridges built by the British,

bridges built during the British era are still standing today,

they are still functioning and operational today.

Trains are passing over them, buses are running, traffic is moving.

And today you make fun of the Taj Mahal, you make fun of the Red Fort,

you associate them with a particular religion.

But you do not learn anything from their architecture.

You don't learn from how they are still standing today, even after 500 or 600 years.

And you can't even make it last for ten days.

This simply means that you are engaging in rampant corruption. What do you say?

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