Lucknow, July 8 -- The Banke Bihari Corridor being built in Mathura has now snowballed into a political issue. Samajwadi Party chief, Akhilesh Yadav, has alleged that the BJP government was trying to destroy the heritage and aesthetics of the lanes in Mathura in the name of the corridor. He also asked why the BJP government did not make a corridor for Kanwariays in the last many years it was in power. Addressing a press conference at SP headquarters in Lucknow on Monday, the SP chief said, "The BJP government is destroying heritage and legacy. Faith is being turned into a business. BJP is displacing lakhs of people so that some people benefit from it. It is not about wide roads, it is about management. If the crowd can be handled by wide places, then why did the stampede happen when Kumbh was held in an open ground." He demanded the centre and state BJP governments to make a corridor for Kanwariyas to take care of their food, health and other issues. "The chief minister spent more than Rs 7,000 crore in building the 91 km long Gorakhpur Link Expressway. Why did he not spend one thousand crore rupees for the Kanwariyas and build a corridor for the Kanwar Yatra? If the corridor was built, the Kanwariyas would have got a good road, food and drink, resting places, all the facilities, but the BJP government does not want to provide facilities. "Every year the BJP runs a campaign to check shops to cheat the Kanwariyas. It deliberately spreads hatred in the society. In the SP government, we will build a new corridor for the Kanwariyas. We will provide all the facilities so that shopkeepers and people walking on the road will not face any inconvenience." "When a new government will come in the state, then BJP's policy of destruction in the name of development will be ended forever. Every compensation scam will be investigated," said Yadav. The Samajwadi Party Baba Saheb Ambedkar Vahini's general secretary Ram Babu Sudarshan has said that the PDA Jan Panchayat programme will be organised in Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Baghpat from July 8 up to July 11 under the leadership of the Vahini's president Mithai Lal Bharti. Through the PDA Jan Panchayat programme, the Vahini will go from village to village to make people aware about the atrocities being done with Dalits under the BJP government....