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Rakesh Kumar, in his forties, was until three months back a rickshaw puller and supplemented his meagre income to support his family of six by working as a labourer.
Today, Kumar has become a mascot for Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s re-election bid. In December, Kumar became one of the 224 rickshaw pullers in Kanpur city on whom fortune smiled when the CM himself gave each of them a battery operated e-rickshaw, and free of cost.
“The contest is between kamal (Bharatiya Janata Party) and cycle (Samajwadi Party),” Kumar speaks about the five assembly segments that are part of
