Lucknow Diary

Express News Service

Lemon thieves on the prowl in Kanpur
The spiralling worth of lemons is attracting thieves to the orchards of Kanpur. In the final 4 days, thieves have made method with round 15,000 lemons weighting 7.5 quintals from the orchards within the area.  Rattled by the thefts, farmers have employed lathi-wielding guards to guard the crop. Chaubeypur, Bithoor, Pariyar, Katri and Mandhana areas in Kanpur are thought-about a lemon belt, the place the fruit is grown in round 2,000 bighas (1,240 acres) of land.Ramesh Pal, a lemon grower in Bithoor Katri, stated that is for the primary time they’re hiring folks to guard the crop round the clock. “We are paying Rs 500 -800 per guard a day,” he stated. In the retail markets in UP, lemons are being offered at a charge of Rs 250-300 per kg.

If not huge chair, then huge bungalow?
Everyone has the fitting to dream huge. For a BJP chief, his ‘big’ dream got here true when he bought a berth within the Yogi cabinet 2.0. Having boasted about his ‘big’ stature within the BJP amongst his followers, he reduce a sorry determine when appointed solely a junior minister. Now, he’s dreaming of a bungalow a lot larger than what he’s eligible for. The craze for an enormous bungalow is such that the minister saheb is after the property division officers’ life to allot him an enormous bungalow as an alternative of what he has been given. Already damage by his ministerial place, a bungalow smaller than his expectation is like an insult to his damage. He is alleged to be able to take the matter even to the highest brass in Delhi.

Penance of ‘powerless’ leaders
Many high-profile ministers of the earlier authorities went jobless after March 25. While in energy, they have been basking within the reflecting glory of their chair, however have been inaccessible to the cadre and supporters. When that they had energy and place, they cared two hoots about others, now they’re getting nothing quite a lot of ignorant glances. These ‘powerless’ leaders aren’t seen in Lucknow anymore. And if in any respect they arrive to the state capital, they continue to be confined to their cocoons to keep away from public glare and people that they had ignored of their heydays. Penance? To make method for brand new faces, the BJP needed to drop over a dozen ministers who have been a part of the primary Yogi Adityanath cabinet.

Namita bajpai
Our correspondent in Uttar Pradesh namita.bajpai@newindianexpress.com