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A seated man sits on an ornate gold throne with a red velvet back and a gold canopy, decorated with multicolour flower garlands, on a stage with black drapes and small tinsel decorations. He wears a white shawl and white dhoti with a golden border and sits barefoot on a yellow and green flower-garlanded footstool. Behind him hangs a large printed portrait of a smiling man with long swept-back hair and a red mark on his forehead, framed by two flower garlands and a blue bird emblem at top left. A microphone stands beside the throne. The portrait is a depiction and the seated man is a physically present candidate whose appearance and cues are distinctive: long hair, white ceremonial clothing and a throne setting, so he is recorded as a probable in-person subject.