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The BJP made use of Twitter to showcase its achievements in five years with the help of photos of long-pending projects getting completed but India Today Fact Check team found they used wrong pictures.
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Western Peripheral Expressway was indeed completed during the tenure of the Modi government but the pictures in the tweet are of Delhi-Meerut Expressway and Lucknow-Agra Expressway.
Amid the latest social media craze popularly called #10YearChallenge, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) launched its own challenge with hashtag #5YearChallenge on Twitter. Using this, the BJP is trying to showcase its achievements in five years with the help of photos of long-pending projects getting completed.
One of the tweets, shared by many official BJP Twitter handles, shows the work done in expressway construction. Juxtaposing two pictures, it is claimed that how a barren land turned into impressive Western Peripheral Expressway within five years of the NDA rule.
Here is our #5YearChallenge.
Western Peripheral Expressway, providing world-class infrastructure, became operational in a time-bound deadline. pic.twitter.com/cZrz2GHyFU BJP Chhattisgarh (@BJP4CGState) January 18, 2019
Here are some of the Twitter handles of the BJP which made this claim.
India Today Fact Check found that none of the images in the tweets are of Western Peripheral Expressway.
The first image is of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway which was inaugurated by Akhilesh Yadav in 2016. The second one is of Delhi-Meerut Expressway which is still under construction. Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated its first phase in May 2018.
When we reverse-searched the first image, we found it on the website of American stock photography company Shutterstock.
The caption reads, "Lucknow; Uttar Pradesh; INDIA March 17, 2015, Aerial view of the under-construction new Agra-Lucknow Expressway, process with heavy equipment at the construction site."
It is interesting to note that the second image, which shows the road after completion, was earlier tweeted by Union minister Vijay Goel on May 26, 2018, as Delhi-Meerut Expressway.
Faster than faster, in the path of #NewIndia under the dynamic leadership of PM Sh. @narendramodi the nation prospers! Glimpses from the Delhi-Meerut Expressway that will be dedicated to the public tomorrow by Hon'ble PM. #SaafNiyatSahiVikas #4YearsOfModiGovt #TransformingIndia pic.twitter.com/qOecJw49OW Vijay Goel (@VijayGoelBJP) May 26, 2018
Western Peripheral Expressway was inaugurated by PM Modi in November last year. It is also known as Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway.
According to Alt News the BJP official Twitter handle also shared this tweet but later deleted it.
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