The native village of the Samajwadi Party (SP) founder, late Mulayam Singh Yadav, is a source of both pride and envy for the people of the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency.
This time Dimple Yadav is seeking reelection from her father-in-law's stronghold, which votes on May 7. Her main competition is expected to be Jayveer Singh Thakur, the tourism minister in the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). While many voters, especially those from in and around Saifai, feel indebted to Mulayam Singh Yadav for transforming the arid region into an "adarsh sheher (model town)", others see this development as symptomatic of favouritism. They argue that the resources could have been distributed more evenly among other villages.
"Though Mulayam Singhji did the right thing, what was the need to corner everything? So many buildings are now just lying vacant. They could have given some things to other villages, as well. Couple it with the domineering attitude of the Yadavs in recent years. So, where will people from other samaj (communities) go," says Ram Lodhi, a native Jatpura village who owns a shop in Mainpuri's Sadar Bazaar. He claims that crores of rupees are now lying "waste" as the work has been stalled on several projects in Saifai village, once the government changed in Uttar Pradesh in 2017.
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