{"id":11166,"date":"2017-03-11T05:33:34","date_gmt":"2017-03-11T05:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/narendra-modis-bjp-sweeping-key-india-state-polls\/"},"modified":"2017-03-11T05:33:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-11T05:33:34","slug":"narendra-modis-bjp-sweeping-key-india-state-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/narendra-modis-bjp-sweeping-key-india-state-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Narendra Modi&#8217;s BJP sweeping key India state polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The vote is being seen as a referendum on Narendra Modi\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef-1.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/22C5\/production\/_95110980_gettyimages-647745140.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      The prime minister personally led his party&#039;s campaign in the politically critical state                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\"> Early trends suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#039;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to sweep crucial assembly elections in northern Uttar Pradesh state.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Modi personally led the campaign in the country&#039;s most populous state against regional rivals Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj party (BSP).<\/p>\n<p>Trend suggest that BJP is also set to win the northern state of Uttarakhand.<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition Congress party is leading in Punjab, and Manipur states.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Modi has been central to his party&#039;s election strategy, and aggressively campaigned on a promise to bring growth and modernisation, and to root out corruption. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Indian election no-one can afford to lose<\/li>\n<li>Will rupee ban decide a crucial election?<\/li>\n<li>Why the bicycle could decide an election<\/li>\n<li>The baby born in a bank queue in India&#039;s cash crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These were strong promises in an impoverished state like Uttar Pradesh where caste, family and religious affiliations are deeply entrenched. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Modi also strongly backed his move to ban high value notes - amounting to 86% of India&#039;s currency - last year as a measure to tackle corruption.<\/p>\n<p>The incumbent chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, opposed the currency move, and told the electorate that Mr Modi had &quot;taken money out of people&#039;s pockets&quot;, and hurt businesses in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He also told people that he was the best person to bring development in the state. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;My track record in the past five years shows that I have a vision for the state,&quot; he said at a rally recently.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say Mr Yadav&#039;s decision to form an alliance with the Congress party, and his direct attack on Mr Modi&#039;s policies probably hurt his prospects.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-india-39228615 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption The prime minister personally led his party&#039;s campaign in the politically critical state Early trends suggest that Prime Minister Narendra Modi&#039;s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}