The Indian state of Uttar Pradesh conducted its legislative assembly elections spanning through a few weeks in February and March this year. The election results for 403 legislative assembly seats were declared on the 11th of March 2017. The Nationalist Indian Peoples party (Bharatiya Janata Party) was able to secure 312 seats out of the 384 seats that it contested, thus making it the single largest contender to form the state government in Uttar Pradesh. It placed much ahead of the incumbent Samajwadi Party led by Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son, Akhilesh yadav. As is the case with all elections, scores of ‘ promises intended to be broken ’ were made to all sections of the society. Election campaigning included appeasement of people based on promises such as the Ram Mandir construction for Hindus and reservations for Dalits & Muslims, in addition to low level slander against competing parties. Marginalization and polarization of communities, false promises and the commun
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