BJP wins landslide election victory in India's biggest state

[Vikrant]

I hope this will improve the condition in UP.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most important battleground state on Saturday, in a personal triumph that will strengthen his claim to a second term as national leader.

Wresting control of Uttar Pradesh is a ringing endorsement of Modi's stewardship of Asia's third-largest economy after his high-risk decision last November to scrap high-value banknotes to rein in corruption.

The Election Commission of India said Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won a clear majority. With the tally of results almost complete, the BJP had collected as many as 312 of 403 seats in the state assembly, the biggest majority for any party in the state since 1977.

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Modi wins landslide election victory in India's biggest state

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

I hope this will improve the condition in UP.

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most important battleground state on Saturday, in a personal triumph that will strengthen his claim to a second term as national leader.

Wresting control of Uttar Pradesh is a ringing endorsement of Modi's stewardship of Asia's third-largest economy after his high-risk decision last November to scrap high-value banknotes to rein in corruption.

The Election Commission of India said Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won a clear majority. With the tally of results almost complete, the BJP had collected as many as 312 of 403 seats in the state assembly, the biggest majority for any party in the state since 1977.

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Modi wins landslide election victory in India's biggest state

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Is BJP populist or elitist?

 

[Vikrant]

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The early lead in the counting seems to have poised the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi for a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh. The results seem to be a clear thumbs up to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's economic policies over the past few years.

These elections were seen as the referendum on Modi's decision to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes to fight corruption and black money. The early results seem to suggest he has passed the test.

But beyond demonetisation, there were many economic policies that Modi undertook, perhaps, with Uttar Pradesh elections in mind:

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