In UP, many wait for next poll gift: a smartphone

It’s raining freebies this election season – from 1 GB Internet data to 2 kg of desi ghee. In 2012, when SP came to power in UP, it rode on one such promise – free laptops to students. The Sunday Expressmet some of the beneficiaries – from a bride-to-be in Agra who has given away her laptop as dowry, to an accountant in Faizabad who still treasures his "first laptop" – and find many of them waiting for the next poll gift: a smartphone