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View: What Lucknow's ladies want.

Asha Pande, with her toothless giggle, finally speaks up after being coaxed by the other women around her.

But does he really know how hard it is to get loans from the bank? There is no anger in her voice.

And they are less demure than Pande.

The government provides subsidies and loans to various groups.

Shabana Lohari, in a red and white salwar kameez and glasses pushed back Reena Roy-style above her head, says standing next to the rest of us sitting on the floor, Regardless of gender and community, everyone has to eat properly, she says ominously sounding like my mother.

I had come to SEWA to meet women.

Does UP's or, at least, Lucknow's women have a simialar poll demand? Going by this gaggle, they do..

Two words (four syllables, if you're an Awadhi shairi): wo-men's safe-ty.

She narrates an incident about a woman being picked up, raped and 'returned'.

Umrao Jahan tells me how a couple of days ago in Husainabad, not far from the Bara Imambara I visited yesterday, a young woman working at a household was harrassed.

They said they would look into it later.

What about the much touted '1090' helpline line for women that Akhilesh has gone hammer and tongs and cycle to publicise weeks before polls? 'Daas-nabbai' is useless, says Kshama Parveen, her head wrapped in a red-blue dupatta.

There's a case where an 'application' (read: complaint) reached Akhilesh about an 1090 official harrassing a complainant.

Daas-nabbai is poll gimmick, says Parveen with all the sincerity she can muster.

I find a voice pipe at my right elbow.

The triple talaq is not an issue.

Everyone else furiously agrees.

It's not like earlier when we just went out and cast our votes blindly.

And she lets out a thread of a smile and gets up.

He looked equally flummoxed when I mentioned that the statue was opposite the BJP party office in Lucknow.

Both fought the British and died in 1858 during the Mutiny.

Inside, only one woman is projected as a leader lending her weight with the boys in the War for Lucknow.

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