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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
Saurabh Sharma

Regional party claims it will beat Modi's BJP in India's biggest state election

Supporters of regional Samajwadi Party hold up a bicycle, a symbol of the party, during an election campaign rally being addressed by their party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Varanasi, India, March 3, 2022. REUTERS/Saurabh Sharma

A regional Indian party has claimed it will unseat Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in provincial elections in Uttar Pradesh state, the most crucial test for Modi before a general election in two years.

The Hindu nationalist BJP has maintained it will retain power in the bellwether state, which with more than 200 million people is India's most populous.

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