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Outlook
|September 11, 2025
At first glance, it seemed like a meme.
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A smiling M.K. Stalin, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, holding on to the bar of an open jeep, flanked by Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Tejashwi Yadav and Rahul Gandhi, with a merry Priyanka Gandhi at the back, both from the Congress, and CPI(ML)'s Dipankar Bhattacharya next to her on a road show in Bihar. But it was not a fake photo. Stalin was indeed in Bihar in solidarity with other INDIA bloc leaders, campaigning against the Oppositions' allegations of vote chori, or disenfranchisement of voters because of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral roll ordered hastily by th
This story is from the September 11, 2025 edition of Outlook.
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