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A street procession in a town, with a large printed banner above showing a portrait of a moustached man with a red tilak on his forehead and rows of smaller portrait photos, labelled with the name Subhash Yadav and the Annapurna Group. Below, a blue banner reads a welcome message on a stage-like platform with a green cloth. Crowds line the road, including men in white kurtas, women in sarees, and uniformed police officers. Orange and red flags and orange draped decorated carts or floats pass along the street, and a man in white dhoti and orange sash walks in the foreground. The scene is a public welcome procession with no clearly identifiable a person present.

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April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A crowded street procession in an Indian town, viewed from a raised balcony. Dense crowds of people line both sides and fill the road, with many men and women in colourful saris and shirts. Many red flags on poles and orange, blue and yellow decorated umbrella-like canopies or palanquin tops move through the centre of the street. On the right a large banner with a welcome message in Hindi ('Swagat Vandan Abhinandan') shows portraits of several men, and a small sign reads Mehndi. A domed temple with arched balconies stands on the left beneath a clear sky with a red flag on its roof. Dense crowds of people are visible, with many people partially visible at the edges of the balcony and the street.2016-04-18A dense street procession moves through a crowded narrow market lane. A large ornate palanquin or ratha with a red-and-gold canopy carries a decorated figure, and a white-clad man stands on its red-draped platform. Uniformed police officers in khaki walk alongside, and a large crowd of men and women in mixed clothing fills the street. A tall blue-green hoarding on the left shows many small portrait photographs of men with a central deity image, with a Hindi caption. Red and orange flags fly above, and tangled overhead electric wires hang across the street.2016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18April 18 20162016-04-18A dense street procession moves through a narrow Indian town lane lined with shops, signboards and hanging banners. At the centre, a decorated palanquin or ratha carries a deity murti under a red and multicoloured canopy, with red flags on poles and a golden ornamented frame. Men in white shirts and dhotis walk and steer beside it, and uniformed police officers in khaki line the route. A large crowd of men and women, some in saris, fills the street and balconies, and a loudspeaker is mounted on a pole overhead.2016-04-18