Bijapur, Feb. 20 -- Sending a strong message of having trust in democracy, the residents of villages falling under the National Park area in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur district, which is considered a safest zone for insurgents and the place wherein security forces have recently gunned down 31 cadres of the banned outlawed organisation CPI (Maoists), registered their enthusiastic participation in the festival of democracy.

Hundreds of potential voters from as many as five villages under the National Park area, including village Sendra, in the worst insurgency-hit Bijapur district, have expressed their confidence on ballots instead of bullets and exercised their voting rights in the second phase of three-tier panchayat election on Thursday.

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