You’ve got to see this savage reality check.

PM Modi stood in Hardoi and proudly declared that Uttar Pradesh, once infamous for its potholes, now boasts 21 airports. Sounds impressive on stage. Until an RTI filed by india Today rips the claim apart.

Here’s the brutal truth: out of the seven newly built airports in UP, six are already shut down. No flights. No passengers. Just massive, expensive structures rotting on the tarmac — crores of taxpayer money turned into ghost terminals. Only ayodhya is actually operational. The rest? Pure optics.

And those potholes Modi loves to mock the opposition for? His own minister Nitin Gadkari admitted in parliament that UP recorded 5,127 deaths due to potholes between 2020 and 2024. That’s a horrifying 54% of India’s entire pothole death toll. Over 1,369 people are killed every year on average.

Airports built for inauguration selfies. Roads so deadly they’re claiming lives at an industrial scale.

The contrast is damning. bjp keeps cutting ribbons on shiny new infrastructure projects while the basic roads people actually use daily remain death traps. Development for the cameras, not for the citizens.

This isn’t progress. Its performance. Uttar Pradesh deserves real infrastructure — working airports that people can actually fly from and roads that don’t kill thousands every year.

Modi can keep boasting about “21 airports.” The RTI data and the body count tell a very different, far uglier story.
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SIBY JEYYA

01/05/2026 05:00 AM