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The Morning Standard
|November 05, 2023
Efforts to polarise voters visible in lone Cong Muslim candidate's constituency in C'garh
DURING a visit to Kawardha assembly constituency, amid the ongoing intensive campaigns by the political parties, one might easily get a glimpse of small groups of Hindu religious gurus moving around in urban and rural areas. They are interacting with the locals, asking them to vote "wisely".
The assembly constituency, about 120 km from Raipur, with nearly three-fourths rural population is for the first time witnessing an apparent impact of polarisation as a dominant feature in the present political discourse during the campaign. Religious gurus under 'sanatan dharma raksha manch' are seen as active.
This story is from the November 05, 2023 edition of The Morning Standard.
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