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Election Results 2017: The Modi wave is alive and kicking

In backdrop of note ban, the polls are seen as virtual referendum on 3-yr rule at Centre

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets at the crowd during a roadshow, in Varanasi (Photo: PTI)

Last Updated : Mar 11 2017 | 9:05 AM IST

With gruelling elections in five states, including Uttar Pradesh, now over, the popular discourse has now shifted to predicting the poll results, which anyhow would be out in the open today.

While most exit polls have accorded the edge in poll outcome to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), barring Punjab, the results nonetheless would be analysed in the context of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

BJP’s biggest mass leader to date, Modi had crisscrossed the poll-bound states of UP, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Goa and Manipur, over the last two months to consolidate the party’s core votes. However, he had invested maximum energies

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