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LUCKNOW: Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces his biggest electoral test since coming to power when the battleground of Uttar Pradesh, which he swept three years ago, holds an election starting on Saturday.
In the biggest democratic exercise on the planet this year, voting will take place in seven stages over a month to elect a new assembly to govern the mostly poor state of nearly 220 million people that lies along the river Ganges.
More broadly, voters will deliver a mid-term verdict on PM Modi and BJP as India recovers from his boldest decision yet: to abolish 86 per cent of the cash in circulation.
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