Images: Voter Prahlad and his life in Ranipur

[caption id=“attachment_203637” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Prahlad and his father at their shop outside the government college in Gonda, where BSP chief Mayawati addressed an election rally on 3 February, in the run up to the first phase of polling. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_203638” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Prahlad and his father at their shop outside the government college in Gonda, where BSP chief Mayawati addressed an election rally on 3 February, in the run up to the first phase of polling. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost.”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_203639” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Manju Yadav, ASHA (accredited social health activist), resident of Ranipur village. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_203640” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Pawan Kumar Yadav, an advocate. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_203641” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Prahlad with his family at his two-room mud-brick house in Ranipur village. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_203642” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Rambali Kumar, a student at the LBS PG college in Gonda, lives in the Dalit basti of Ranipur village. Naresh Sharma/Firstpost”] [/caption]

Images: Voter Prahlad and his life in Ranipur

Ranipur’s Prahlad may be a simple man with frugal needs. But he knows the value of his vote and hopes that one day the government will rescue him from poverty.

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