They may have lost the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh by a huge margin. But, they stood out as a team—both parallel and diverse—for their unique campaigning style. Power couple, Akhilesh and Dimple Yadav, get into a candid conversation with Ankita Rathod on their journey so far, the much talked about family feud and what went wrong for them in the 2017 assembly elections. Don’t miss the exclusive pictures too…
Before the election results were announced:
It is six in the evening in Lucknow. A chill is setting in. Nonetheless, the by lanes of the nawabi city are feeling the heat amidst the assembly election banter. All said and done, the power never fails at 5 Kalidas Marg—which is the official residence of the Chief Minister of India’s most populous and electorally significant state Uttar Pradesh, which, with more than 200 million people, would be the fifth-largest in the world if it was an independent country.
Outside the gates, people are jostling in the cold, pleading the security personnel for a meeting with him, there are also several bunches of people raising slogans for the Samajwadi Party.
This story is from the April 2017 edition of SOCIETY.
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