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(27 Apr 1996) T/I: 10:04:42


Indians voters began casting their ballots on Saturday (27/4) in the first round of general elections. About a quarter of the country's 600 million voters are eligible to cast vote in 175,000 centres across 10 of India's 25 states and four federal territories.

SHOWS:

NEW DELHI, INDIA 27/4

BADAPUR, OUTSIDE DELHI:
Vs sunrise over village of Badapur
Ws scene in village
Villagers preparing chappatis outside brick hut
Polling station in village
Sign going up
Int electoral roll
Sealing up ballot box
Vs queues of people to vote
Man places thumb print on ballot (indicating that he's illiterate)
voting
Woman signing her vote
Man votes
SOT polling officer J.S. Puri in English: "people are coming this ballot paper is so big that they are unable to fold it and some ladies are so confused they don't know where to put the mark to give their vote"

DELHI
VS street scenes in a Muslim district
Vs police troops standing guard outside polling station
People entering station
Ballots folded
Vs women voting
Guards
Voxpop in english from male voter: "There's no propaganda and everything I think is very fair. Now a lot of people are not having a lot of expenditures like posters, banners and it's a very good thing because if these things shouldn't happen this time we couldn't choose a proper man. This time I think it's better than before".
Sot from woman voter in Hindi: "To vote is everybody's right. We have the right to choose our own government".
New polling station
Ink going on finger so people can't vote twice
Vs lines
Votes in box
SOT from polling official R.K Sachdeva in English: "You can see from the queue most people are very much eager to vote".
SOT Political commentator, H.K. Dua in English: "I do not think the next government will last for too long, the next Lok Sabha government will not last for too long. I would expect a midterm poll in a couple of years time".
Ext Indian parliament

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