Akhilesh can’t, Mayawati could

When Akhilesh Yadav at the age of 38 became the country’s youngest chief minister in March 2012, many hoped Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s worst-governed states, would improve. That hope vanished soon. Now, with 35 people killed in Muzaffarnagar and five other districts of western UP in the past four days in the worst communal riots in the state in more than two decades — and one of the worst in India after Gujarat 2002 — Akhilesh appears to be a failure.

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