Farmers back in the fold

BJP ’ s resounding victory in UP signals a triumph of developmental politics over the casteist variant . The pre-election payment to sugarcane growers worked too

This Lok Sabha election has broken many myths not only at the national level but in Uttar Pradesh ( UP ), too . This is for the first time that a Government at the Centre has not only warded off the

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anti-incumbency factor but has , in fact , improved its position in many decades . It ’ s an oftrepeated saying that the road to Delhi ’ s seat of power passes through UP and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) proved that its pan-India weight could fill any trough , even the one in UP .

Most political pundits had predicted not more than 30 seats for the BJP in this State , particularly after the

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