Politics Trips Power Reforms

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Rajnath Singh met Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee last month with a wish list: could he have more money for a programme for the electrification of UP which will lead to full electrification by 2007?

What with an election coming up...

The Prime Minister had finance minister Yashwant Sinha come to the meeting. All the indications are that Rajnath Singh