Highlights of India Today 15th August 2016, issue:
The cover story this week 'Gujarat Model in Danger' is on Anandiben Patel and how her exit has highlighted the crisis within the BJP in Gujarat after the Patel and Dalit agitations.
The story 'Sharmila's Choice' looks at the Iron Lady of Manipur, Irom Sharmila, and her decision to end her 16-year-long fast against AFSPA. The story also looks at how Sharmila's decision has unsettled many of her supporters.
The story ‘Bengali Nights’ looks at Kolkata's dance bars and how they thrive in a twilight world of obscure laws and political connections and how despite troubling allegations of trafficking, the nightspots continue to flourish.
This issue also carries the special India Today State of the States report. The report on Jharkhand analyses what it has done right and how it can do better.
In a no-holds-barred interview, SAD president and Punjab's Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal talks about the Aam Aadmi Party, Navjot Singh Sidhu and more and says if comedy is key, all jokers will be chief ministers.
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