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THE BATTLE FOR BUNDELKHAND

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a special relationship with Mahoba in Bundelkhand. Before the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly election, he launched the BJP’s ‘Mission Bundelkhand’ from here with a ‘parivartan rally’ in October 2016. This was the first time a prime minister was visiting Mahoba, an extremely backward district in the region. The strategy apparently worked and in 2017 the BJP swept all 19 seats in Bundelkhand.

Keeping this in mind, Prime Minister Modi, along with Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, once again launched Mission Bundelkhand from the Police Line Grounds in Mahoba on November 19. The prime minister also inaugurated four water projects, completed

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