UP polls 2017: Will PM Modi, Hindutva trump caste divisions in eastern UP?

BJP worked hard on getting the social math right in the rural areas

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Last Updated : Mar 06 2017 | 11:05 AM IST

Azamgarh, 237 km east of Lucknow, is a politically useful point to assess where each political player of Uttar Pradesh stands as electioneering enters the penultimate phase with 40 of the 403 assembly seats left to poll on March 8. The town that was in the news for the wrong reasons since the Batla House encounter on September 19, 2008, in Delhi’s Jamia Nagar and the 10 assembly constituencies that make up the Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat have nearly always eluded the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP's) grasp. Even when the BJP had turned in its best ever showing in eastern

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