Chhattisgarh's turnout has a heartening message

As Chhattisgarh wound up the first phase of polling, across 18 constituencies of Bastar and Rajnandgaon, the affirmation rang loud and clear: even in a Maoist-created climate of intimidation, most people deeply value their vote. Hundreds of thousands of voters poured into polling booths to exercise their franchise. Even as a corrosive cynicism about politics seems to have become the fashion in metropolitan India, Chhattisgarh voters have sustained its turnout at a heartening 67 per cent.

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