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New Delhi, INDIA: United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government Chairperson and Congress Party President Sonia Gandhi (L) offers prayers to actors dressed as Hindu Lord Rama (C) and his Brother Laxman (R), ahead of the burning of the effigy of the Hindu demon Ravana, stuffed with fire-crackers, at a function marking the Hindu festival of Dussehra, in New Delhi 02 October 2006. The annual festival of Dussehra celebrates the victory of the mytholigical Hindu warrior King Rama over the evil symbolised by the demon Ravana. AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH (Photo credit should read PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)