Will the Lack of a CM Face Eat Into BJP’s UP Poll Harvest?

Farmers supporting BJP talk about their hardships with note ban and the confusion around who will be CM if they win.

Barkha talks to BJP supporters in a farming village of UP to see what impact both notebandi and the party’s failure to field a CM candidate has had on its votebank. (Photo: The Quint)

Will the BJP’s decision not to field a candidate for Chief Minister in Uttar Pradesh go against it in the crucial elections ? Traveling #OnTheRoad for The Quint, Barkha Dutt stopped at a village near Etawah to talk to BJP supporters, farmers who voted for Modi in 2014. This time, they say the one thing that could hurt their party's prospects is the lack of a local face to lead the campaign.

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