No photos please

It’s not just those arrested by the police who want to hide their faces from the camera. It appears all those interested in joining the Congress party in the Naxal-affected Bastar region of Chhattisgarh fall in the same category — indeed, the Congress party’s drive to induct new members has failed for this very reason. Potential Congress party members are worried that once their pictures are taken, they will be identified as members of a political party and will be soft targets for Naxalites. The matter has been flagged and senior party leaders in the state are going to take a call on whether to scrap the condition of attaching photographs.