Portrait of the Day

19 April, 2014

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From the Delhi Press archives, a younger Mayawati. After a series of bruising electoral losses, the Dalit leader has sounded the battle cry this year, with her Bahujan Samaj Party contesting all 80 seats in Uttar Pradesh. In our April election special, Ajay Bose analyses her careful demographic calculations: http://caravanmagazine.in/perspectives/seat-revenge

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