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> The ruination began not long after I left Benares. Criminal gangs specializing in kidnapping and extortion had already filled the vacuum created by failed industrialization in the region. In the 1990s, mafia dons from nearby districts began to shape local politics and to build shopping malls of glass and steel near the river.

Yet BJP/modi is bad. The author very well knows how fast organized crime in the country and at the state level has continued to declined since the rise of bjp in the center and the state.