Describe the embellishment of umbrellas prepared by the koils of Saurashtra.
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In Saurashtra, a region that sends 7 MPs to Parliament, four Koli candidates have been fielded by the Congress and three by the BJP.
These numbers offer clear indication of how the scales are tilting in favour of the dominant caste in Bhavnagar and Saurashtra. 'The Kolis in this region can no longer be ignored,' says Kunwarjibhai Bavaliya, the Congress MP from Rajkot, a Koli.
Tucked on the outskirts of Bhavnagar town, just where the land meets marshes, is the Koli (fisherfolk) ghetto of Karcheliya Para.
Home to some 18,000 voters, all Kolis, the colony, a mix of kuchcha-pucca houses, pot-holed roads, crisscrossing electricity cables, Karcheliya Para gives an impression of a neighbourhood on the move.
Mostly daily wage workers employed in the construction of roads and buildings, the youth of Karcheliya Para quickly gather under the tree shade to chat about the prospects in the Bhavnagar Lok Sabha constituency.
Their interest in the goings on stems from the fact that two of the top three contenders share their caste.
While the Bharatiya Janata Party fielded Bhartiben Shiyal, a Koli MLA from Talaja, the Congress candidate, the MLA from Palitana, Pravin Rathod, is also a Koli.
Rathod emerged as the winner of the Congress primary in Bhavnagar under a programme encouraged by party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi.
Koli voters make up a decisive 32 per cent of Bhavnagar's 1.6 million electorate and it is these 500,000 voters that the BJP and Congress candidates are banking upon to win this constituency.
The Aam Aadmi Party's Dr Kanubhai Kalsaria, a three time BJP MLA from Mahuva in Bhavnagar district, is the third contender. Dr Kalsaria belongs to the Ahir community that has about 100,000 voters in this constituency.
Chiman Makwana, a resident of Karcheliya Para, quit school after Class 8. He joined his father as a mason and earns Rs 100 on a day he finds work. Makwana is quite vocal when he talks about the two Koli candidates.
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