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The Bharatiya Janata Party’s magnificent victory in Uttar Pradesh gives the central government enormous political space going forward. The 2019 general election is now its to lose; unless it errs on a truly monumental scale — and perhaps not even then — it will come back to power. This means that now, for the first time since the early months of the administration, it has the opportunity to implement meaningful change.
In some ways, the BJP has been playing defence since it was obliterated in the Delhi Assembly elections, less than a year after it came into office. It was
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