“I didn’t get justice under the BJP government. If a new government comes to power, maybe then I’ll get justice,” says Asha Singh, as she waits for the immersion rod to heat the water while her daughter Nisha* prepares tea in their house in Unnao district.
But these are not marks of a regular household; it is after all, a temporary abode for the mother and daughter who left Makhi village soon after Asha was declared as the Congress candidate from Unnao Sadar seat – one of the six constituencies in the district. Security personnel maintain a visitors’ register outside the house, its gates plastered with Congress symbols.
