Gallery: Gritty Instagrams of the Biggest Election in the World
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Group of men from Dhubri district of #Assam await the arrival of their relatives coming home for casting vote on an abandoned aircraft staircase outside #Guwahati #Airport. #Loksabha2014 #scrollelections #indiavotes #india #northeast #indiaelections
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Latergram from 16th April - congress supporters watch while seated on a tree top as Congress president Sonia Gandhi delivers a speech at Ambedkar Stadium in Karimnagar during a rally that kicked off her part's campaign in Andhra Pradesh for the ongoing polls.
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A man wears a mask of Arvind Kejriwal.
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A plastic bouquet sits atop a pile of plastic chairs after end of Trinamool Congress Party chief Mamata Banerjee's election rally on Sonarpore.
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An election official goes through documents inside a makeshift storage room for electronic voting machines at a government college in Bhagalpur, Bihar.
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Campaigns vans of LCR's party Telangana Rashtra Samiti rest in the parking lot of the party's office located between Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills in Hyderabad.
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A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) flag flaps in the wind prior to the address of their prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi during an election campaign rally in Chennai, India, Sunday, April 13, 2014.
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Voter ink marks the finger of Satyabhama Das. At 110, having never skipped casting her ballot, the matriarch is possibly the most senior voter in india voting since 1954.
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Latergram from 26th April - Rajnath Singh, president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the B.J.P.'s candidate for the Lok Sabha seat in Lucknow, at an event last night (4/26) pledging to protect Lucknow's Gomti River should he come the member of parliament here.
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Yesappa Dange goes back to cast his vote after helping his visually impaired father, Samuel, cast his in Bidar, Karnataka.
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A man painted in Aap colors and climbs up a ladder in support of Aam Admi Party in Sangroor, Punjab.
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Leader of the opposition in #WestBengal Legislative Assembly Dr. Surya Kanta Mishra finding his way to the dais at a CPI(M) public meeting in Baruipur Purba, South 24 Paraganas.
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Latergram from 12th April - A blast of yellow coloured confetti, corresponding to the party's symbol of a yellow cycle, fills the Kukatpally sky as Telugu Desam Party president Chandrababu Naidu arrives to chair a public meeting to garner support for the ongoing elections.
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Chairs at LB Stadium in #Hyderabad, where #RahulGandhi is addressing a public meeting today.
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Supporters of Kashmir's main opposition political party, Peoples Democratic Party's (PDP) leader Mehbooba Mufti, listen to her during her road show on April 15, 2014, in #Tsimer about 90 km south of #Srinagar, the summer capital of Kashmir, India.
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Ishad Ali 83 and Chandan Das posing with their respective voter Id in front of India-Bangladesh border fencing at Durganagar village.
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Latergram from yesterday - Silhouetted against a cloud of dust, a boy holds on to a Bharatiya Janata Party flag at a public meeting chaired by Narendra Modi at Polo Ground, Vadodara , Gujarat.
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Karan Choudhary, rests wearing a #NarendraModi mask at Lila Ghat in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.
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