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Assembly elections 2017: Modi writ large in BJP’s sweeping victory in UP, Uttarakhand
Tags: Current Focus, India,
BJP led by prime minister Narendra Modi wins a huge majority of 325 seats out of 405 in India's largest state Uttar Pradesh for the state assembly elections. The national opposition party Congress wins only 7 seats in what was once the main source of Congress support during the period of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. This will enable the BJP to push forward with the modernization program for infrastructure and roads, and other development. Opposition in the upper house Rajya Sabha and lack of support from states will not be a major hurdle in development now that BJP has won in states such as Orissa, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, and Uttarkhand in recent state elections after its win in the 2014 national parliamentary election. This also gives credibility to the government's other efforts such as demonetisation to fight corruption in real estate and other areas. India's GDP is a fraction of China's and it is smaller than that of countries such as Indonesia, because of the poor administration and lack of development in India's 2 largest states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar in the northern Hindi speaking region. To double the GDP from its current level will require doubling the GDP of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Bihar's state government is run by a former BJP leader, who has also pushed for improving standards of living and economic growth.
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Narendra Modi is the chief minister of Gujarat state in India, where he has implemented a strategy for developing infrastructure, roads, power plants, and attracting foreign investment in the automobile and other industries. With India's slowing growth and corruption in government he is now the choice of the BJP party to run against the ruling Congress party in the 2014 general election. His slogan is minimum government and maximum governance. He is popular in Gujarat state for running a clean administration and generating a decade of high economic growth in the state with a population of about 60 million.
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