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The couple took a loan of 100,000 rupees ($1,400) to cover the procedure, 195FoodAdventure trapping Dharmendra in slave labour and joining thousands of people in rural India estimated to have been duped by unscrupulous doctors into having unnecessary hysterectomies.

Uttar Pradesh minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Azam Khan has drawn controversy yet again, after branding the Prime Minister a «killer».

‘If the BJP comes to power, they have planned to snatch power and electricity departments from us and keep it with MCD. Do not allow that to happen,’ he warned his listeners. 

But Dinesh Baswal, deputy commissioner of maternal health in the health ministry, said it was a complex problem as women sought hysterectomies thinking that it would help resolve abnormal bleeding or painful periods that stopped them working.

«This has to be recognised as a cause of indebtedness and bonded labour,» said Bharath Bhushan, founder of Centre for Action Research and People’s Development (CARPED) — one of the first organisations to study the medical malpractice in 2005.

Major Chandrashekhar Singh of 666 Army Aviation Squadron, who died when his Cheetah helicopter crashed in the Siachen heights during a reconnaissance and observation sortie in May, was awarded the Shaurya Chakra.

We are targeting metro stations and busy bus stands,» an AAP worker said. «Our volunteers are standing with the posters at 150 locations in the Capital.

Another IAF pilot to be decorated is Squadron Leader A.B.

Vasane, who kept his calm when fumes and smoke filled the cockpit of the Mig-29 he was flying at 30,000 feet and avoided overflying a petro-chemical installation in the area before safely landing.

One of the posters says that choosing Modi as prime minister would be inviting troubles.

The poster uses the Hindi proverb ‘Aa Bail Mujhe Maar’ to finish the ‘Abki baar Modi sarkar’ tagline. The poster also has a cartoon of an angry buffalo on it.

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The CM played his free electricity and water card as well. 

The BJP’s Lok Sabha election tagline, ‘Abki Baar Modi Sarkar’ can be seen and heard everywhere on TV, radio and billboards.

I feel a lot of pain after the surgery in my limbs, but at least I am alive,» said Laute, feeding goats tied outside her tin shed home in the middle of a pomegranate farm as dusk drew nearer. «The doctor said I will die if I don’t get my womb removed.

Our volunteers were stopped from distributing pamphlets. «Modi supports these leaders who are behind attacks on migrants from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in Maharashtra. Many of them were roughed up,» said AAP leader Ashish Talwar.

While factors ranging from India’s caste system to rural-urban migration or drought and deforestation are often cited as causing debt bondage, the financial impact of hysterectomies has received little attention, human rights campaigners say.

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($1 = 69.2750 Indian rupees) (Reporting by Roli Srivastava @Rolionaroll; Editing by Kieran Guilbert and Belinda Goldsmith.