Before the onset of Ramzan, the month of fasting in the Islamic calendar, the Yogi Adityanath government had ordered round-the-clock power supply in the minority-dominated districts of Uttar Pradesh.
The message was carefully aimed at the Muslim community, which accounts for nearly 20 per cent of the UP population and plays a decisive role in 125 of the 403 assembly constituencies, especially in the western region. The directive had come in the run-up to the by-polls to the Muslim-dominated Kairana parliamentary and Noorpur assembly constituencies, where the Bharatiya Janata Party ...
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First Published: Sun, June 03 2018. 21:46 IST
