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ita Garia/The Wall Street JournalWomen in Rampur say that Mr. Khan doesn’t speak to them. Pictured, 30-year-old Phool, far left, who says that many problems haven t been addressed. Mr. Khan, in a striped cotton kurta and trousers, stopped to address a gathering of about 300 men at a Muslim neighborhood in Swar,cheap toms, the rural constituency that he is running to represent. He reminded the crowd about the new roads he had constructed in the area, about the additional hours of electricity they were getting and his plans for a new electricity house and water tanks for the villagers.“This place was very dear to my father. You were very dear to my father,” he told the crowd. “I need not ask you for votes because I know I am in my home.”As he spoke into the microphone from a raised platform of bricks and mud, the women listened, standing coyly behind the doors to their houses or peeping out from the small walls on the rooftops of their houses.Krishna Pokharel/The Wall Street JournalPictured, a shopkeeper and his son at Swar, a rural constituency in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh.Phool, a 30-year-old mother of three children who goes by only one name, says there are many problems in her area. “There is no light or water. Even the drainage pipes are not cleaned. There’s no hospital or school,” she says. “Please request him to come here and listen to us also, if only for 5 minutes,” she says,cheap toms.When told of Phool’s request, Mr. Khan says because the women like her are from conventional Muslim families, his mother and sister have been going and talking to the women in the area on his behalf. He says he is trying his best to solve all the problems of the people in his constituency but the funds need to come from the state government.Back in the crowd, Sharif Baba, a 75-year-old local businessman who deals in the transportation of cattle leather, says he and his family members voted for Mr. Khan in the past and will vote for him again because “he is from the royal family and is always there to help the people.”As he went through the streets with narrow concrete roads, he stopped to speak to a group of residents at a juncture.“You’ve got nice road,” he said.“Naved Mian, all due to your kindness,” some residents said, calling Mr,toms the shoes. Khan by his popular nick name. Mr. Khan flashed a smile as the people garlanded him with plastic flowers. Before he moved on, he told them of a rally in a neighboring area the next day to be led by Rahul Gandhi, the Congress party’s national general secretary who has been campaigning all over Uttar Pradesh in a bid to revive his party’s political fortune in the state.“I have arranged buses for all of you to come. Please understand that this rally is very important for me. Rahul Gandhi is future young prime minister of the country,” he told the crowd.Krishna Pokharel/The Wall Street JournalKazim Ali Khan smiled as he was garlanded with plastic flowers, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh. In the interview, Mr. Khan said he is sure of his win: “I don’t contest elections if my chance for winni Related articles:
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