With the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections barely six months away, the main opposition parties — the Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and Congress — have sharpened attacks on the Yogi Adityanath government over alleged Covid-19 mismanagement and economic hardship in the last four years.
Although the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has deployed senior cabinet ministers as also top party leaders to counter the opposition onslaught, the plausible of the pandemic on the socio-economic canvas of the state is far too wide to underestimate.
However, the government can mount its defence by highlighting the sizeable credit flow of