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BJP takes the throne in UP: What it means for the Narendra Modi persona

In 2014, his '56-inch chest' was his USP. This election has added a couple of inches to that

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Aditi Phadnis New Delhi
On the back of its UP performance, the BJP is betting that it is going to win every election between now and the general elections of 2019 (and it will probably win most of them). Come 2019, Narendra Modi will get another chance to become Prime Minister of India. Amit Shah, playing Advani to Modi’s Vajpayee will galvanise the organisation as only he can, with a degree of ruthlessness and singlemindedness, so that it puts down roots in areas where it never existed.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP won 71 parliament seats by winning 328 (81