LUCKNOW, Feb. 18 -- The Uttar Pradesh legislative council on Tuesday witnessed a heated exchange between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the government over the issue of power supply, prompting the opposition to stage a walkout. Under Rule 105 (adjournment motion), SP members Lal Bihari Yadav, Kiran Pal Kashyap, and Balram Yadav, among others, moved an adjournment notice over the deteriorating power supply situation in the state. Kiran Pal Kashyap, Shah Alam and Ashutosh Sinha spoke on the admissibility of the notice, alleging that electricity services were going from bad to worse. As energy minister AK Sharma rose to respond and began refuting the charges while blaming the previous regime, SP members walked out of the House shouting anti-government slogans. The minister, however, continued his reply, recalling that in earlier years residents in parts of the state even used overhead power lines to hang clothes for drying as they were confident the wires carried no current.htc...