Rewriting the U.P. equation
March 14, 2017  10:18
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We'd be lying if we said we saw this coming. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies won 325 out of 403 seats in the 2017 U.P. Assembly election, a strike rate of 81%. This is the largest number of seats won by any party/coalition in UP since the Janata Party in 1977. In retrospect, the analysis of this extraordinary feat is remarkably straightforward. It is almost a repeat of the national election in 2014, when U.P. was in the grip of the 'Modi wave'.  Read more
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