A worker carries Bahujan Samaj Party flags to be put up at the venue of a rally where Mayawati , the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh will speak, at Faizabad, India, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012. India's biggest state, Uttar Pradesh, will be choosing its state assembly in elections starting next week. Mayawati, a former school teacher and leader of the Bahujan Samaj Party, who uses only one name, has risen to the upper rungs of India's political landscape by tapping into the enormous voting base of dalits, who are at the bottom of Hinduism's caste structure. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

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