Are people in large parts of Uttar Pradesh facing the brunt of having rejected the Samajwadi Party in the just-concluded Lok Sabha elections?



Parts of the state have been going without power for at least 12 hours a day; even the ‘privileged districts’ were suffering on account of unscheduled power cuts.



Drawing first blood, the Bharatiya Janata Party has been pointedly targeting Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, claiming that the state government was indulging in vendetta politics at the peak of the summer season.

Addressing a protest rally in Lucknow on Thursday, UP BJP president Laxmi Kant Bajpai said: “Frustrated on account of the electoral reverses, the Samajwadi Party was showing its anger against people of the state who were being punished for not voting for them.”



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