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Dedicated to Sukumar Sen (1898-1963), the first Chief Election Commissioner of India
(1950-58), who put a newly independent nation on the terra firma of democracy.

Sukumar Sen

“ en and women, sophisticated city-dwellers and simple

village folk, high and low, the rich and the poor, the tribals,
Mthe hillmen and the plains people - all citizens of this great
country - will make their way shoulder to shoulder to the hundreds of
thousands of polling stations to participate in this great venture – that of

democratically electing the men and women who will guide the destiny
of the nation and form the governments for the next five years.”

- Sukumar Sen
Speech on All India Radio
January 22, 1957

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