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THE WEEK India
|June 30, 2024
At the height of the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, a video of Angomcha Bimol Akoijam belting out a song of the legendary rock band Scorpions went viral.
He had recorded the video during the pandemic. He got fabulous response for the video from his constituency, Inner Manipur. The video established the 57-year-old's identity as an apolitical person whom the people could relate to.
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