Backwardness may be a way of life in Unnao but lack of initiative is not something the people here can be accused of. Not when they are giving a new definition to the word 'outsourcing'. Apart from the candidates, everything else — from campaigning to arrangements for men, food and country liquor — has been outsourced.
Of the candidates, only the BSP's Brijesh Pathak is forthcoming about the system. Pathak has hired a team of 60 cooks for a month to churn out meals for about 400 workers.
In Shuklagunj, BJP's Devi Bux Singh too has a non-stop langar for workers. Congress MLA and Lok Sabha candidate Shivpal Singh too is organising a langar A local politician says these meals are part of a deal which include two pouches of country liquor at sunset.