A purported video of the incident on social media showed the police hitting a Dalit man mercilessly with batons and his wife and others trying to save him.

Just five months after it barely succeeded in ending the BJP's 15-year rule in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress party has been stunned by possible rout across the state's 29 Lok Sabha seats.

In a dual role as a candidate from Guna in Madhya Pradesh and party in-charge of Western Uttar Pradesh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, a close ally of Rahul Gandhi, talks about 2019 election strategies and what's next for the Congress in its fight against the BJP.