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A smiling man seated on an ornate gold throne with a gilded arched backrest, palms pressed together in namaskar. He wears a tall gold crown with a finial, a red bindi, an orange saffron robe, multiple garlands of white jasmine and red-pink roses, and rudraksha bead bracelets and armbands. A small headset microphone is visible near his face. Red velvet armrests with tiger-stripe pattern and a silver staff with a finial stand beside the throne. Appearance-based candidate: a person, seated in a ceremonial role on the throne, garlanded and honoured.