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Modi's BJP Party Wins Heart of India Voters

March 12, 201710:50 AM ET
Julie McCarthy

Young Indians want a more prosperous country in their lifetime and appear to have seized on Prime Minister Narendra Modi to deliver it.

Headlines following the elections declared Modi, "King of the Heartland" after results in state assembly elections. Modi's BJP Party swept the polls in two of five states –- Uttrakhand and Uttar Pradesh (UP).

But it is the vast UP with its plains that stretch to Nepal that resonates the loudest. With Modi's personal appeal, his party secured 80 percent of the 403-seats up for grabs in the legislative assembly of the state that is the most important battleground in the country.

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