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Prashant Kishor: How India's best-known poll strategist finally became a lawmaker

Bankipur covers an area full of colleges and exam-coaching centres, and around a third of its voters are under 30. That is also significant because India has had a wave of student protests recently over jobs and exams - serious enough that a government minister resigned over it just weeks before this vote.

Bankipur covers an area full of colleges and exam-coaching centres, and around a third of its voters are under 30. That is also significant because India has had a wave of student protests recently over jobs and exams - serious enough that a government minister resigned over it just weeks before this vote.

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