Gains of BJP party and popularity of rising Modi to be tested in local India elections ahead of Presidential vote later

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Indian hardliner Modi faces popularity test in state polls

AFP – Voters defied threats from India’s Maoist rebels on Monday to turn out for the first of five state elections that will test the popularity of opposition leader Narendra Modi before national polls next year. Chhattisgarh state, a resource-rich hotbed. BJP leader Shatrughan Sinha, on a weekend trip to Washington, expressed his desire for what seems as unattainable as the India-Pakistan alliance – a joint BJP-Congress government for the functioning of a better India, one that keeps the concept of peace.