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Citizens traversing thousands of kilometers on foot and whatever transport they could get during the post declaration of Independence of India and the communal tensions in partitioned India. The scenes during the preparations to the first general elections in the country after independence and Nehru interacting with the common folks of the country. Citizens cast their votes in the first-ever democratic elections of free India. People lining up for voting and the ballot boxes in the independent era. A number of women can be seen in the footage. CPI leader Sitaram Yechury speaks on the impact of the voting rights given to women and the other developmental measures which led to Nehru as the first Prime Minister of India. Historians discuss the success of the secularistic approach of the Congr
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