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Video: India’ poor face grim future

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 India’s poor have little faith in politics 
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India’s parliamentary elections kicked off this week, but many feel that the month-long democratic exercise will not bring about real changes.

The nation’s poor say promises of aid made before elections are quickly broken, and the global financial crisis has made things even worse for people living in poverty.

Al Jazeera’s Matt McClure spoke to textile workers in Varanasi to see how they are getting on.

 
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