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Surveys point to election blow for India's Gandhis
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| Last Edited | 411 Name Removed Mar 03, 2012 03:38pm |
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| Author | John Chalmers and Matthias Williams |
| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Saturday, March 3, 2012 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | (Reuters) - India's Rahul Gandhi failed to deliver the election comeback he had promised for the ruling Congress party in the politically crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, according to voter surveys released after the phased, month-long poll ended on Saturday.
Official results will not be known until Tuesday and it was not clear how accurate the handful of post-election surveys would prove, though they all showed similar trends.
If confirmed, such a setback for Congress would make it harder for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's already weakened coalition government to pursue reforms that could shore up economic growth, which has slipped below 7 percent.
The surveys showed the leftist Samajwadi Party winning by far the largest number of seats in the legislative assembly of Uttar Pradesh state, which with 200 million people has a larger population than Brazil. |
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