Poetry versus plumbing

Uttar Pradesh is an economic wasteland in a job emergency. Akhilesh Yadav is young, he fought a good fight, but has to live up to high expectations. This combustible cocktail has predictable consequences; quick announcements of badly designed schemes committing huge government spending. His poll speech—“If Mayawati can spend crores on stones and statues, why can’t we give unemployment allowance to jobless youth”—has led to a proposal to pay R1,000 every month to every unemployed youth in UP till the age of 35.

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