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LLIANCE
BLE
UITS?
by Pragya Singh
S
O Mayawati and Akhilesh
Yadav have finally opted for
pragmatism over pride and
prejudice. The logic had
been staring at everyone’s
face from even before 2014,
when the electoral phenomenon
called Narendra Modi hit Uttar
Pradesh for the first time. It was
like a giant snowball, devouring the
whole landscape before it, almost
programmed to superabundant
success. But even in the face of that
self-propelling elemental force, an
aggregation of the three main
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