People queue to vote as polls open in India's most populous state in a test of the appeal of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda. Uttar Pradesh has struggled through India's economic downturn, and Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is keen to prove it still holds sway in the bellwether state, home to more than 200 million people.

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