Instead of taking on each other with full vigour in the fortnight to the assembly elections, the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh are fighting dissidence in their own ranks. Predictably, many of the headaches relate to ticket distribution. Both parties have had their share of melodrama, farce, even tragedy. Denied a ticket, a Congress worker from Agar, 80 km north of Indore, consumed poison and died. In Neemuch, Meenakshi Natarajan, a Congress MP and aide to Rahul Gandhi, was locked up in a room by party workers upset with party office-bearers over ticket distribution. Even a senior like state unit vice-president Manak Agarwal was seen quitting his post in a huff after being denied a ticket.