Another dynasty in trouble

“I am a traditionalist,” says Akhilesh Yadav in his offices in stately Lucknow, capital of Uttar Pradesh (UP) in north India. The chief minister is being disingenuous. A good two decades younger than most senior Indian politicians, and the introducer of cybercafés as portals for government services, Akhilesh—as he is known everywhere—is self-consciously rejecting the ways of earlier chief ministers, especially his predecessor in UP, Mayawati, whose lurid pink tiles he had torn off the walls of the waiting room.

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