ELECTIONS 2004

The largest democracy at work

As voting begins in phases for the 14th Lok Sabha, images, collected from across the country, of the democratic process.

	AFP		RITU RAJ KONWAR
	A tribal woman before the electronic voting machine at a polling station in Harshaguda in Andhra Pradesh on April 20.		Women go to the polling booth in the flood-hit Nagaon district of Assam on April 26.
	RITU RAJ KONWAR		M.LAKSHMAN/AP
	A physically challenged man campaigns for the Congress party on National Highway No.37 in Nali, 60 km from Guwahati.		An autorickshaw converted into an AIADMK campaign vehicle in Chennai.
	RITU RAJ KONWAR
	At Nortap on the Assam-Meghalaya border on April 19, elephants carry electronic voting machines and other polling materials to booths in the Guwahati constituency.		A BJP worker seeks the blessings of the `nandi bull' in front of the party headquarters in Lucknow on April 23.
	AFP		AMIT DAVE/REUTERS
	Security personnel dealing with a man arrested for alleged voting irregularities in Hazipur, 70 km east of Patna, on April 26.		Finishing touches for a `Feel Good' hairstyle, in Ahmedabad on April 17.
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	An elderly voter listens to L.K. Advani at Kaliyakkavilai, Tamil Nadu, on March 10.		On April 28, at the Egmore railway station in Chennai, men and machine to guard the polling booths.

S.JAMES

CPI(M)activists campaign for P. Mohan, the party's candidate for the Madurai seat in Tamil Nadu, wearing masks representing national and regional leaders such as Mahatma Gandhi and `Periyar' E.V. Ramaswamy.

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