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A photograph of a smiling man with long dark hair, wearing a red flower garland, gold armband and a leopard-print cloth tied at his head, seated beside a gold lion-headed throne. Around him stand boys in white dhotis with gold borders and rudraksha malas, one with a white forehead band with hands folded in greeting. A man in a white shirt holds a camera on a tripod, and an air conditioner unit and a brass lamp stand behind. Appearance-based candidate: a person, seated on the throne with a red flower garland and long hair, surrounded by devotees in white.