Updated On: 19 February, 2019 04:00 PM IST | | ANI
The Samajwadi Party leader also raised questions over intelligence agencies and called on the central government to formulate a long term strategy for securing the country's borders

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh): Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said that the priority of the country's leadership should be to ensure that bulletproof jackets are provided to its soldiers, rather than focussing on bullet trains.
Addressing a press conference here, Yadav took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Central Government's ambitious bullet train project and said, 'Today the country does not require a bullet train, it is more important that our soldiers get bulletproof jackets.â¿ÂÂu00c2u009d