Apart from being the city of rich heritage and mouth-watering delicacies, Lucknow is also the capital of India's most politically charged state that spins legions of stories from the corridors of power. Rajiv Srivastava narrates a few of them... Civil War! It was 1974. Congress’s Swaroop Kumari Bakshi was facing a piquant situation in the state elections. A candidate from Lucknow East, she found that her estranged husband Raj Kumar Bakshi alias Raja Bakshi was contesting against her. Although Raja had married Swaroop Kumari’s second cousin Meera, who was 16 years younger to him, the two had not formally separated. Meera and Raja’s son — and now BJP neta — Rajeev Bakshi recalls that Swaroop Kumari was also living in Lucknow as Raja’s first wife. In a bid to sort out his pers

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