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A street procession on a silver ceremonial cart decorated with ornate silver panels and marigold garlands. A man with grey hair and a moustache, wearing a maroon kurta and a saffron-yellow shawl, stands on the cart holding a long pole of a large red and yellow canopy umbrella with tassels and a trident finial. Beside him a figure in orange robes sits on the cart. Crowds of onlookers press around, a cameraman films from the left, and a scaffolded building and orange flags appear in the background. The cart carries no visible deity murti.

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