Modi Faces ‘Disappointed’ Voters in India’s Most Populous State
Dharam Pal Singh said that All farmers had their eyes set on Modi with a lot of hope,
Mr. Modi’s party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, commonly called the B.J.P., does not control the government of Uttar Pradesh, which determines sugar cane prices
and the school and health policies that are the source of many local woes.
Mr. Modi voted that Modi had promised good days,
14, 2017
KIWANA, India — Villagers in the cane-growing region in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous
state, helped sweep Prime Minister Narendra Modi to power nearly three years ago.
Mr. Singh’s wife, Rekha, sitting across from him on the string bed in their courtyard, said their children needed to be taught English so they could get good jobs,
but that the government schools still taught in Hindi.
" But at a more fundamental level, disappointed villagers said in interviews
that they had given up hope that any politician would be able to change things and had instead fallen back on traditional caste allegiances. that Now that Akhilesh has got them off his back, he’s cleansed the image of his government as nonperforming, where gangsters had sway.