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Luther Lowe, Yelp’s director of government affairs, said that the probusiness group was a logical ally because it had deep connections in statehouses.

Under the policy, every $1 an employee donates to Wal-Mart’s PAC, which supports such probusiness candidates as Ohio Republican House Speaker John Boehner, Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz, and Arkansas Democratic Senator Mark Pryor, triggers a $2 donation to a charity for Wal-Mart employees in need.

Just as Indians fed up with their country’s ruling class delivered a landslide victory to Narendra Modi, a probusiness governor whose father manned a tea stall at a train station, Indonesians would embrace Joko Widodo , who as governor of Jakarta has built a reputation as a humble man in touch with the masses.

As chief minister of the state of Gujarat, he is credited with engineering an economic “miracle” there with probusiness reforms like streamlining bureaucracy and improving infrastructure.

The bottom line: A new political party pressing for reform may throw into doubt an expected May victory by India’s probusiness BJP. is a reporter for Bloomberg News in New Delhi. is a reporter for Bloomberg News in New Delhi.