To win in Uttar Pradesh, a party needs a reliable core vote
March 09, 2012  14:03

On the Telegraph, India, read Mukul Kesavan's piece on the UP polls.

To say that the election results for five state assemblies came in on Tuesday is true but misleading. One of those five states is more like a country a large, backward country than a state. According to the 2011 census, Uttar Pradesh is home to roughly 200 million people which makes it, demographically, a political unit slightly larger than Brazil.

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