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A roadside procession on a paved road lined with parked buses, one red-and-white and one white with lettering. In the centre, drummers in bare-chested or white dress with yellow head cloths beat large drums and play drums before a decorated float or palanquin draped with garlands in orange, yellow and red flowers. A man in a cream kurta with an orange shawl and a round badge walks in front, with a man in white dhoti and sandals to his left. Behind the float, a man in an orange shawl and a woman in a white sari follow. On the right, a barefoot elderly man in a white and brown lungi stands by a dirt field, and a few people walk along the roadside. The scene reads as a padayatra procession. No candidate a person figure is clearly identifiable, so the a person field is set to unsure.

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