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Learning election lessons

By: Eastern Eye Staff

by Amit Roy RELIEF FOR THE TORIES BUT LABOUR ‘SHOULD HAVE DONE BETTER’ IT GOES almost without saying that it is risky to extrapolate the results of a general election from local ones, whether that is in India or in the UK. Nevertheless, the assembly elections in In­dia’s south Indian state of Karnataka, set for Sat­urday (12) to next Tuesday (15) may provide possible pointers to how Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will perform in next year’s general election. In Britain, the next general election does not have to be called until 2022, so the result…

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