But the programme seemed to have got up on the wrong side of the cot this morning -the villagers looted all the cots minutes after the meeting ended. Chandrawati Devi, 45, from Matiyari village was trying to break an already broken cot to make it easier to carry home. Congress spokesperson Meem Azfal had sounded confident as he spoke to this newspaper minutes before the Rudrapur meeting. "Rahul said he would waive the bank loans and power bills if the Congress formed the government in Uttar Pradesh." After Rahul left, a local Congress official kept announcing: "Leave the stools and cots.

Source: The Telegraph September 06, 2016 21:11 UTC