In UP, many wait for next poll gift: a smartphone

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The larger question, however, remains as to whether poll freebies have helped uplift people from the larger problems of poverty and unemployment that hobble the state.

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It’s raining freebies this election season — from 1 GB Internet data to 2 kg of desi ghee. In 2012, when SP came to power in UP, it rode on one such promise — free laptops to students. The Sunday Express met some of the beneficiaries — from a bride-to-be in Agra who has given away her laptop as dowry, to an accountant in Faizabad who still treasures his “first laptop” — and find many of them waiting for the next poll gift: a smartphone

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