Home Minister Rajnath Singh told NDTV today that he is confident that his party the BJP is in the lead in Uttar Pradesh, and admitted that the BJP's closest competition in this election is the alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Congress. "Without that", he said, "we would have crossed 300 seats." But he underscored that there is wide anger against Akhilesh Yadav's government over law and order problems. Also a drawback, he claimed, is that the Chief Minister professes to delivering development to the state. "He speaks of one highway. Is this what a Chief Minister should offer as an example of his governance? One highway?"
