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Snapshot of the day

April 4, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

As India prepares to vote, here are some elements of the portrait of the ‘mother of democracy’. 

First, the Supreme Court says it will hear in the week after next – i.e. the week elections are set to begin – petitions seeking a complete count of VVPAT slips