Assembly polls: What is at stake for those who are hoping to net top job?

The Samajwadi Party has no doubts at all: If it comes to power, Akhilesh Yadav will become CM

The results will be out on March 10. But what was the ground covered during the campaign for elections to five state Assemblies and what is at stake for those who are hoping to net the top job? Aditi Phadnis looks at the themes that made the election and the leaders whose fortunes are on the line

Uttar Pradesh

The campaign

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) made law and order a big issue: How earlier governments couldn’t control criminals and worse, got them to let off because they were from a one or other caste, while