Uttar Pradesh: The key prize in India’s election

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Jalees ANDRABI | AFP

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Sat, 2019-05-18 05:15

VARANASI, India: If Uttar Pradesh were a country, it would be one of the world’s most populous. And this poverty-stricken northern melting pot of over 200 million people is the biggest prize in India’s election ending on Sunday.
Uttar Pradesh (UP) has 80 parliamentary seats, the most of any state, and at the 2014 election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) swept up 71 of them.