LUCKNOW, June 2 -- A cabinet minister was seen yelling at an additional district magistrate and additional superintendent of police of a west UP district for not being given guard of honour. He also questioned the absence of DM and SSP at a meeting convened by him to discuss the payment of dues to sugarcane growers.

A police outpost officer speaking indecently to an MLA, a plaque put up by a civic body not carrying the name of a local MLA, a legislator finding his name missing on the foundation stone of a bridge in his constituency... there are complaints galore.

Protocol violation complaints received by the UP legislative assembly continue to rise. Till May 25 this year, the assembly has already received 15 such complaints. This number...