Modi on the upswing?

Sometimes statistics convey only half the story. One such number is the Lok Sabha seats the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won in 2009 in Uttar Pradesh: 10 of the state’s 80. Even the fact that this tally pushed the BJP behind three other parties didn’t quite capture the depth of its rout. So staggering was the party’s decimation that as many as 33 of the 71 candidates...

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