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BJP sits pretty in power in Lucknow, its untouchability eroded and eying Delhi

The United Front is at odds over Article 356. The Congress is smarting from defections in the state. In the end, the BJP is sitting pretty: in power in Lucknow, its untouchability eroded and looking to Delhi.

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REASON TO SMILE: Kalyan Singh's manoeuvres were helped by L.K. Advani's persistence
By the evening of last Wednesday, Delhi's Raisina Hill was beginning to resemble a carnival. Outside the iron gates of Rashtrapati Bhavan the luminaries of India's largest parliamentary group and the ruling party in Uttar Pradesh sat on dharna, the ubiquitous television cameras recording their every movement.