Odisha contributed around 18.7% of the country’s malaria tally, followed by Chhattisgarh (31,713), Jharkhand (31,140), West Bengal (26,493), Tripura (22,412), Maharashtra (16,164) and Uttar Pradesh (13,585)
With a burgeoning caste-neutral middle class and so-called Hindu consolidation, these surveys could be last ditch efforts to derail BJP Lok Sabha aspirations.