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As BJP-JMM Face Off in the Jharkhand Assembly Polls, Voters Choose Between Welfare and Polarisation

In what is a "too-close-to-call" contest, the NDA and INDIA bloc fight it out to secure the swinging OBC voters.
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What did The Wire find in the electoral ground of Jharkhand? Is the BJP’s “Bangladeshi infiltrators” issue working, or it is the Hemant Soren government’s welfare schemes which are attracting the crowds. In what is a “too-close-to-call” contest, the NDA and INDIA bloc fight it out to secure the swinging OBC voters who are too crucial to ignore.

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