The hills of Odisha and Andra Pradesh are alive with the sound of dual voting

Kotia, a predominantly tribal gram panchayat that Odisha and Andhra both claim, seeks to vote differently — with two votes to a person, one in each State, in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Satyasundar Barik finds that even as the matter of territory is in the Supreme Court, people here claim rights from both States, making the duty to vote a logical corollary