Parties sniff opportunity in itra hub
Business Standard|May 10, 2024
Kannauj's perfume park is an expanse of 50 acres with a boundary wall that awaits the laying of gas pipelines for the town's local manufacturers to begin setting up their perfume, or itra, making units at a project first conceived a decade ago by Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) government.
ARCHIS MOHAN
Parties sniff opportunity in itra hub

The construction of roads in the complex and a substation was set up by the Yogi Adityanath regime.

Although the pace of work over the last ten years could have been swifter, it has still been steady enough for Kannauj's perfume manufacturers, divided in their political allegiance between the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and SP, to dream of owning a plot inside the perfume park and indulge in good-natured sparring over whether they should credit Akhilesh Yadav or Yogi for its construction.

The arguments have become more heated in the run up to the polling day in Kannauj, especially after Akhilesh Yadav reconsidered fielding his nephew Tej Pratap Yadav and announced his candidature from the seat, which his wife Dimple lost by a mere 12,353 votes to the BJP's Subrat Pathak in 2019.

She was elected unopposed in a bypoll from the seat in 2012 and struggled to win against Pathak by 20,000 votes in 2014.

However, 2019 was the first instance of the SP losing the seat, which Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhilesh have represented, since 1998.

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