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A photograph inside a covered hall with a corrugated metal roof and a hanging fluorescent light. A crowd of devotees in white dhotis and shirts, many with red shawls or saffron-striped cloths over their shoulders, stand close together with palms pressed in anjali or raised in reverence. A man in the left foreground wears a gold ring and has a hand raised toward the frame. The floor is wet and reflective. No clearly identifiable a person is visible in the foreground people, so no appearance-based candidate is claimed.

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