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For months across India friends and colleagues have asked each other one question — a question that can substitute for a greeting, for an ice-breaker, to revive conversations that have stalled. It’s a question that, in fact, doesn’t even need to be spelled out in full. It is simply: How many?
How many seats will the BJP get? Nobody knows, of course, or may even be close — except the handful of pollsters sitting tight-lipped on exit polls from the first five phases. But most have a likely number in mind. More to the point, on that one number depends
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