Sugarcane pricing, too, has influenced and provoked politics in the state. Politicians and political parties, caught in a tough grid lock of issues relating to power and sugarcane pricing, fear electoral consequences of upsetting sugarcane farmers. Much of this, every five years, or between five, gets rolled over to power and power tariff, finding a quick connection, inevitably, as if in a magnetic pull and repel. In 2009, farmers from west Uttar Pradesh had forced the government to step back on the uniform fair remunerative price order that caps sugarcane rates. The farmer fury and its tumult reached the Parliament. The power and price bitter sugar ball became bigger over the summer leading to 2011 assembly elections.

It is 2018. The Power Minister is firming his pivot foot for the tricky terrain ahead. He adds, "For needs, demand and requirements of 2018, we had started working immediately, after coming to power, in 2017. The summer of 2017 welcomed our new assignment and responsibilities. It was tough. We had little time. But, we worked tirelessly. Now, we have begun to prepare for summer of 2019. It takes approximately two years to achieve good transmission. Substations have to be readied. Power imported, earlier, was 6,500 mega watt. Now, we can import up to 10,000 mega watt. The grid limit was 18,500. We have exceeded it, to 22,000. Low voltage districts have been identified. Committees will take care of issues in these districts."