Leader of India’s biggest state boosts Hindu right agenda

BISHARA, India: minister named a hardline Hin speeches to head its largest state election win had emboldened him to pursue a more radical agenda.

man was lynched by his Hindu - ebrated into the night by let powder.

population.

- cow — considered by Hindus to

“He will get them ( our

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nationalist agenda since taking minority. chil- In this photograph taken on March 18, 2017, new Chief Minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath gestures to supporters as he is presented with a floral bouquet during a ceremony in Lucknow.

Hindu hardliner to head its most

whom adherents perceive as a since the eighth century.

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Muslim fears

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supply.

thought his priority should be to ensure that cows are protected.

“The cow is our mother. When choose between the cow and development we will choose the

previous state governments had reasons — a perception widely