Prime Minister Modi is facing his busiest year of state elections in 2018. Elections that are due to take place this year will have an important bearing on economic policy at the local level, and will also go some way to determining whether the ruling BJP will be able to gain control of the upper house of parliament, which on several occasions has delayed or blocked the passage of economic reform. However, there is added interest this year, as upcoming elections will serve as bellwethers of the government’s popularity ahead of the general election in 2019.
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