UP, Goa Election 2017: The Importance Of Being Small

Of all the states going to polls in the next few days, the contrast couldn't perhaps be more stark than between Uttar Pradesh and Goa. One is the country's largest and most populous state, the other among the country's smallest. Zahid Beg, the sitting Samajwadi party legislator from India's hand-knotted carpet capital Bhadohi in eastern Uttar Pradesh, is seen as facing a mammoth challenge ahead to get re-elected. His constituency, by a rough estimate, is around 350 sq km. And it isn't even the biggest of Uttar Pradesh's 403 assembly constituencies.