Violence continues in MP, PMO asks state govt for a report

In some wholesale markets like Harda and Hoshangabad, the situation was returning to normal

An eerie silence prevailed on Wednesday on the mostly deserted fields in Madhya Pradesh’s soybean- and wheat-growing belt of Malwa even as violence continued in the state, where five people were killed in police firing on Tuesday.
 

In Mandsaur, where the firing had taken place, violence broke out at several places as agitators torched a warehouse and a few vehicles despite curfew. Protestors also slapped the district magistrate. All four-wheelers, including those belonging to senior Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress leaders, were barred from entering Mandsaur via the neighbouring districts of Neemuch and Ratlam. As a precautionary measure, internet services