The way is UP

The Uttar Pradesh assembly election is due next year, and much of the current political crackle and activity are in anticipation of this one event. It has long been the site that prefigures larger shifts in the national narrative — and this time too, it is expected that the UP result is going to offer a significant reading of what is to come, and bear on the 2014 situation. Now, the Congress and Ajit Singh’s Rashtriya Lok Dal are at the last stages of negotiating their alliance — it’s one of the first pieces of UP’s electoral jigsaw being put in place.

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