Power to the people

Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje is a risk taker. She often rushes in where her political counterparts fear to tread. Power, for her, has a different meaning, and in this case, literally so. Facing Assembly elections in November this year, Raje took the gutsy but politically suicidal step of cutting off power to 1,000 villages in four districts of Bharatpur division, an area from where she has a strong support base.