This crucial region in MP may be kinder to BJP than the rest of the state

In the Malwa-Nimar region the party finds support despite farmers' death in Mandsaur firing

As Madhya Pradesh seems headed towards a dead heat in the elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party has pinned considerable hopes on reprieve from the Malwa-Nimar region, spanning the west and the south-west. The swath of land-- home to MP’s industries and a beneficiary from the strides agricultural growth took over the past 10 years or so—houses A-list districts and towns such as Indore, Ujjain, Dewas, Neemuch and parts of Guna but equally has been the epicentre of agrarian distress, epitomised by the killing of farmers in Mandsaur, a hub of opium cultivation and trade, by the police in 2017. Jhabua,