Her fragile coalition government in Uttar Pradesh broke up last month amid recriminations over the project.
She has sped up urban works in many cities and towns in Uttar Pradesh.
The results in Uttar Pradesh also tell us something about the way India is evolving.
Uttar Pradesh (UP), home to 185m, expects its main rice harvest to be down by 60%.
The funds were meant for distributing cycles and hearing aids in 17 districts of Uttar Pradesh state.
The populous northern state of Uttar Pradesh also saw a rise in the number of poor people.
BBC: 'Sharp drop' in India poverty due to welfare programmes
Reports say more people have lost their lives in the bitter cold in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand states.
But Uttar Pradesh's canny voters can throw up surprises which can upset the best-made plans of every political party.
The other involves a 6-year-old girl who went missing in April in the city of Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.
The ancient Hindu gathering takes place in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, attracting tens of millions of people.
The government buys from relatively prosperous agricultural areas: the states of Punjab and Haryana and parts of Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh is equal to Brazil in population, with more than 200 million people and 126 million eligible voters.
The court in Mathura in Uttar Pradesh heard how Vijander, a Dalit boy, had eloped with his girlfriend, Roshni.
Its big test will be when its government in Uttar Pradesh, the biggest state in India, faces the voters.
While touring Uttar Pradesh this month, his car was battered by angry youths.
He has other opportunities, notably in Uttar Pradesh's important state polls in 2012.
Many of the recent cases, including the Aligarh case and the other Uttar Pradesh case, involve lower-caste, or Dalit, victims.
Former chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state and low-caste Dalit leader Mayawati said that he should be "sent to jail".
In the past weeks, Samajwadi Party, a crucial ally from populous Uttar Pradesh state, has been expressing reservations about its support.
Gorakhpur is a sprawling city near the Nepalese border in eastern Uttar Pradesh, notorious for thuggish religious politics, gangsters and smugglers.
Perhaps most significantly, Congress may have more than doubled its former account in Uttar Pradesh (UP), with 21 of 80 seats.
However, large states like Uttar Pradesh that "import" substantial quantities of goods from other states are apprehensive about revenues being adversely affected.
Campaigners said the venue of the protest would now move to Farrukhabad in Uttar Pradesh, where Mr Khurshid has his parliamentary seat.
Her party also polled well in at least 60 parliamentary seats outside Uttar Pradesh, making her a pan-Indian Dalit icon of sorts.
Congress triumphed in state elections last November and was regaining support among Muslims and lower-caste voters in Uttar Pradesh, India's biggest state.
Delhi begin their Ranji Trophy campaign against Uttar Pradesh on 7 November.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has said that "just and impartial action" will be taken against those found guilty of the crime.
"The proposal to commercialise the Kumbh Mela has not been approved, " Uttar Pradesh's Development Secretary Praveer Kumar told BBC Hindi's Ram Dutt Tripathi.
In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, the authorities have closed all schools for a week after a cold wave claimed the lives of 104 people.
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