In India, a historic victory for Narendra Modi's party in the regional

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers celebrate at the party headquarters in Lucknow, India, Thursday, March 10, 2022. AP - Rajesh Kumar Singh

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In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist BJP party has just won important regional elections in four of the five states that voted in recent weeks.

More particularly, the BJP came out on top in the gigantic Uttar Pradesh, led by a radical Hindu monk, proof of the dominance of this party on the political scene. 

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From our correspondent in New Delhi, Sébastien Farcis

A crowd of BJP supporters marched through the streets of Uttar Pradesh's capital, Lucknow, on Thursday, accompanied by a huge bulldozer: a machine that has become the symbol of the party's anti-crime policy in that state.

Its leader, Yogi Adityanath, has built a tough man image by destroying mafia houses or killing dozens for five years.

This seems to have convinced the electorate: the victory of the BJP, with an absolute majority, also confirms the very Hindu and sometimes Islamophobic policy of this radical monk.

The regional economy is certainly devastated by the health crisis, unemployment is very high, but the opposition, divided, could not fight the formidable political machine of the BJP, very rich and extremely well organized.

The party wins a second consecutive term in the country's largest state, something that hadn't happened in 37 years.

Of the five states that voted, only Punjab escaped him: it was the young anti-corruption formation of

Aam Admi

, which led New Delhi, which won and thus became a real national party, to be watched two years before the legislative elections. federal.

 To read also: Uttar Pradesh: "uninhibited Hinduism"

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