JALANDHAR, India: The mechanics retrofitting cars with blast-resistant doors and bulletproof windshields in a Punjab garage have been flat out of late - elections are looming, and politics can be a dangerous game in India.
"This one is the mother of all elections," he told AFP, as sparks flew from welding equipment on the factory floor. At least seven rival companies contacted by AFP, in northern Punjab, neighbouring Haryana and also Maharashtra state in the west, have also experienced a spike in election-related orders for armour-plated vehicles.
India has a history of political violence, with particular bloodshed around election time as competition intensifies between the country's hundreds of registered parties, who field thousands of candidates at state and national polls.More than 100 politicians or party officials were murdered in 2016 alone, the latest figures from India's National Crime Records Bureau show.
More than two dozen political figures from warring parties have been killed in Kerala, a southern state and one of India's most developed, in the past three years.
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