With the Jain community having been granted minority status by a Congress-led government that is nearly bankrupt of new ideas, the Kannada and Tamil film actor Sanjana Jain endorses a magnificent commodity at the opening of a saree showroom in Bangalore on Thursday.

Photograph: Karnataka Photo News

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