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International Business Times
International Business Times
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Bhuvan BAGGA

India Pushes Maoist Rebel Strongholds On Road To Democracy

People queue to vote in a village in Bastar district, one of the last strongholds of the Naxal rebels (Credit: AFP)

A narrow winding road through an untamed forest has proven a blow to a decades-old Maoist rebellion that is one of India's longest and deadliest insurgencies.

As the world's biggest democracy began a six-week election Friday, the people of one small village -- newly connected by fresh tarmac to the outside world -- cast their ballots for the first time.

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