'You don't have any options within the BJP. You only have to follow the orders of the top leadership.'
In some villages of Morena, there are as few as 400 to 700 females for every 1,000 males.
The saffron party promised a "direct payment of a proportionate bonus" to small and marginal farmers -- those owning up to five acres of land.
'Defence, development and democracy is the formula to defeat Naxalism.'
Dalit votes could play a decisive role in 28-30 constituencies in the 230-member assembly.
The ravines, which are sharp, steep mud hillocks, stretch over three states - Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh, once home to several dreaded dacoits have long been the subject of several projects and government schemes to make them agriculturally viable.
The houses of a sitting and a former MLA, both Dalits, were set afire by a violent mob.
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