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A supporter of Mayawati Kumari, of the Bahujan Samaj Party and the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state, smoked a cigarette during a political rally in Palwal, India. The BSP was founded in 1984 to represent the Dalits, also regarded as untouchables in a caste system that has been formally abolished under the Indian Constitution. Discrimination and prejudice against Dalits still linger across South Asia.

Courtesy: New York Times