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“The women in our village have not been voting for decades,” she told The Hindu on phone from Para. “Every time we approach the villagers and ask them to vote, they tell us that the decision [of not letting women in the village vote] cannot be changed,” said Mr.
Barui. more-inAirunnesha Bibi, a resident of the Hariharpur village in Purulia district, cannot remember when she voted the last time. All attempts by the ruling and Opposition parties, as well as by the district administration, to convince the women to cast their votes have failed, he added. They [the district administration] should first make elections safe and then come to us,” said Kazi Azijul, a resident of Hariharpur, speaking on phone..