India, Oct. 22 -- The Uttar Pradesh power crisis has reached an inflection point. The state is faced with acute power shortage - from the ghats of Varanasi to the villages of Noida, public anger is now spilling onto the streets. Locals are calling out boastful ministers on their hollow promises of 24-hour electricity.

Things have come to such a pass that when locals in the Sultanpur district complained to a visiting UP Power Minister Arvind Kumar Sharma about just three hours of electricity per day, he responded with "Jai Shri Ram" and drove away. While that has lit up social media, the state's power grid remains dark.

As power outages sweep Uttar Pradesh, HT decodes the principal challenges facing the Yogi Adityanath government - from ...