BY DRISHTI BHATT & JYOTI CHAUHAN

SUMITRA DEVI stood on the railway platform dressed in a bright saree, holding a steel tiffin box, waiting around her luggage for the train to Patna on Wednesday. The elections back in her home state hardly interest her. “I don’t really vote, my husband takes care of the political duties”, she tells The Indian Express .

The Ahmedabad Railway Station that had been buzzing with migrants heading back home to Bihar for Chhath Puja and the general elections, seemed to be returning to normal. In order to control crowds at the train stations and prevent accidents, Western Railway authorities had stopped selling platform tickets at the Ahmedabad and Sabarmati railway stations from October 16-27.

On Wednesday, as the Ahmedabad-Patna Express chugged in to the

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