UP elections 2017: #AkhileshYadav blasts PM Narendra Modi at Badaun rally; 5 key takeaways

UP elections 2017: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is fighting both the anti-incumbency factor as well as a muscle-flexing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under an increasingly aggressive President Amit Shah who has dusted out a number of issues in the lead up to polling that includes the Ram temple at Ayodhya as well as hitting out at at the Samajwadi Party for playing communal (appeasement) politics through its pandering to ‘vote banks’. The star BJP campaigner, PM Narendra Modi has used the development card to the full and held up his economic achievements record to indicate that only he can raise the state’s economy to a higher plane in a dispassionate manner that will cater to the interest of all sections of society, especially the poor and the farmers, rather than focusing on a few.