Niqabs
Mar 24 2007, Pooja

Muslim women will have to remove their ‘niqabs’ if they want to cast their vote on 26th of this month.

However, initially they were allowed to vote as such, which ignited sparks from public.

Marcel Blanchet the chief electoral officer’s...

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