On UP’s sugarcane fields, bitter community divides in the open

The Muzaffarnagar riots have left deep scars in this western Uttar Pradesh sugarcane belt, breaking apart the affable Jat-Muslim relations. As feared, new political equations are taking shape on religious lines, eroding, for instance, the traditional Jat-Muslim vote base of the Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).

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