230 MLAs As Observers: BJP Leaders From Gujarat Focus On Tribal Seats In Madhya Pradesh swarajyamag.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from swarajyamag.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
BJP has assigned a constituency to each of its 230 leaders from Gujarat, UP, Bihar, and Maharashtra and tasked them with preparing ground reports. Of the 48-strong Gujarat contingent, 18 have been assigned tribal seats.
India’s Narendra Modi-led Hindu supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government has responded with vitriol to a BBC documentary that examines the current prime minister’s role in facilitating and overseeing the 2002 Gujarat anti-Muslim pogrom.
BJP dominated the landscape and its candidates saw huge victory margins. There are few women, one Muslim in the assembly while voter turnout is on the decline.