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Akhilesh must win UP to avert reignition of SP power feud

He needs to prove to his detractors wrong that the 2012 poll sweep by SP was a fluke

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav paying tribute to Mahatma Gandhi during a road show campaign for Congress-SP alliance in Allahabad on Tuesday.
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Virendra Singh Rawat Lucknow
The stakes are high on 2017 Uttar Pradesh election results, which would trickle in from the morning of March 11.

Even as poll results would be keenly watched given that future prospect of political parties and candidates was incumbent upon them, the leader who bet highest on the election process, is UP chief minister and ruling Samajwadi Party (SP)  president Akhilesh Yadav.

He desperately needs to win for not only retaining power, but prove his detractors wrong that the 2012 poll sweep by SP was a fluke. Akhilesh also wants to prove that he possessed the required bandwidth and political