They wear no make-up, modest cotton pants and stained, worn jackets.

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Always clad in simple cotton saris without any jewelry or make-up, she is known as much for her tantrums as her political fortitude.

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Exports of wheat, barley and cotton will fall, and with them the incomes of farmers, who make up nearly 30% of the workforce.

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