With a little over a week to go for polling day, Kesaria village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sirathu is festooned with posters of prime minister Narendra Modi, chief minister, Adityanath, and Keshav Prasad Maurya – UP’s deputy chief minister, the BJP candidate from Sirathu, and a son of the soil of Kesaria itself.
A cement road leading to the village is heralded as a symbol of “development” under the BJP, while stickers on doors proclaim “poori hui har aas, ghar-ghar aaya vikas”. All hopes have been fulfilled, development has reached every doorstep.
