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Modi, Gandhi duel in key Indian state election

Prime minister Narendra Modi

By: Keerthi Mohan

Millions of Indians voted Wednesday (28) in a state election seen as a key duel between prime minister Narendra Modi and his main rival before the whole country goes to the polls in 2019. Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has governed the central state of Madhya Pradesh, home to 73 million people since 2003 having won three state elections in a row. But polls suggest that the opposition Congress headed by Rahul Gandhi, scion of the Gandhi-Nehru dynasty, could win on the back of concerns about rising unemployment and by appealing to disgruntled farmers. The party, which lost…

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