Elephant Statues Covered in India

Symbolism
An Indian worker pulls a tarp over an elephant statue at Ambedkar Park in Noida, India, near New Delhi, on Jan. 10, 2012. Workers have fanned out across the Uttar Pradesh state in northern India to cover the statues in pink and yellow tarps in response to a decision from the country's election commission that ruled the elephant images would unfairly influence voters to support the political party using the animal as its mascot.

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