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Electorates in Punjab and Goa will vote on Saturday to elect their new legislative assemblies. Both states have largely had bipolar elections in the recent past between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies, but are set for a multi-cornered one with the entry of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
Along with elections in the next few weeks to Manipur, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand, the results of the polls to these five states will be interpreted as a referendum on the Narendra Modi government’s demonetisation move. In Punjab, a Shiromani Akali Dal and BJP coalition government has served
