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Millions of domestic migrants can’t afford to go home to vote in India’s mammoth election
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Mr Sirajul Miya and his wife Rezina Bibi outside their one-room tenement in Noida. They did not return to their home in West Bengal to vote, as it was too expensive.
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NEW DELHI – Mr Sirajul Miya and his wife Rezina Bibi work hard daily at a construction site near Delhi, helping to build tall apartment complexes with units that are snapped up by India’s growing middle class.
The couple migrated about a year ago from their village in eastern state West Bengal – where they had no means to support themselves – to Noida, in the north of the country, more than 1,500km away.
