Uttar Pradesh is in the middle of a high-profile election, perhaps the most important election nationwide before the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. A lot of the focus in UP has been on big leaders and star candidates but in some of the state's poorest and most impoverished areas, it's the fight for things you and I take for granted that are centerstage. In east UP's Sonbhadra, India's thermal power hub, a crippling drinking water problem persists beyond the glitz of campaigns and promises.
