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India election sees change After ruling for three decades, the world’s longest-serving democratically elected communist party loses power in West Bengal.
April 25, 2011
India's Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief, Mamata Banerjee, addresses supporters during a campaign rally for her party's candidates ahead of the third phase of elections in Kolkata. Banerjee will become the next leader of West Bengal, a state of 90 million, a population equivalent to Germany's.
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Congress party President Sonia Gandhi, center, interacts with supporters during an election rally at Murshidabad, 188 miles from Kolkata. The most-watched race was in India's fourth most-populous state of West Bengal, where Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress unseated a Communist-led government that held power for 34 years.
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India's ruling Congress party's youth wing activists wear masks of their leader Rahul Gandhi as they walk during a campaign in support of their candidate in West Bengal state assembly elections in Kolkata.
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A man walks past a Communist Party of India (Marxist) party symbol in Kolkata. Voters streamed into polling stations in West Bengal in state elections that saw populist maverick Mamata Banerjee unseat the world's longest-serving, democratically elected communist government and emerge as a key power broker.
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Nuns of the Missionaries of Charity, the order founded by Mother Teresa, stand in a queue to cast their votes in Kolkata.
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India's Railways Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee, right, laughs with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during an election campaign rally ahead of the third phase of elections on the outskirts of Kolkata.
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Election officials count ballots at a stadium in Kolkata. India's ruling Congress-led coalition was leading in the key state of West Bengal, ruled by communists for more than three decades.
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An election official shows security seals of an electronic voting machine to party agents at a counting station in Kolkata. Counting of votes began in India's fourth most-populous state of West Bengal, where India's ruling Congress and its ally Trinamool Congress unseated a communist-led government that has held power for 34 years.
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Indian sand artist Swapan Das gives finishing touches to a portrait of Trinamool Congress party leader Mamata Banerjee near a party office in Kolkata. The state's poverty-weary population, hungry for change, was captivated by Banerjee and her Trinamool Congress Party, which unseated the communist party that had ruled for 34 years.
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