Modi as PM candidate boosts BJP's chances: poll

(Reuters) - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has picked up support since naming Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi as its candidate for prime minister last month, but would need new allies to form the next government, an opinion poll showed on Wednesday. Modi, three times chief minister of Gujurat, was put forward by the main opposition party in August, cementing the rise of a leader who many think is capable of turning round India's economy but who remains tainted by deadly religious riots that broke out on his watch in 2002.

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