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Hardline Hindu priest becomes UP chief minister

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Mar 20, 2017
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The Bharatiya Janata Party has unveiled what could turn out to be its vision of the future leadership for a Hindu-nationalist India with the March 9 appointment of a hard-line Hindu priest as the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.

He will be backed up by two deputy chief ministers, one from one of the lower castes, and the other a professor of commerce fro…

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