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Indian voters wait to cast their ballots at a polling station near the India-Pakistan border for the Punjab State Assembly elections in the village of Bachiwind, some 25 miles from Amritsar, India, on Jan. 30. More than 20 million people in two northern states went to the polls in key elections expected to reflect on the popularity of India's ruling Congress party.
While much of India has galloped ahead in recent years on the back of a reform drive that began two decades ago, Punjab has been left straggling behind, Reuters reports.
The state of 27 million people offers a snapshot of the ills that are putting the brakes on India's economic expansion, from chronic power shortages to tussles between industry and farmers over land and policy decisions held hostage by political compulsions. Read the full story.
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