India's election crusader peddles for 'real' democracy Lal Mani Das raises his pitch to beat the morning din outside a railway station in the eastern Indian city of Patna to make an appeal: Vote for a strong democracy. The 45-year-old from India's impoverished Bihar state is not a vote-seeking politician or a government election agent but an ordinary bicycle-snack-hawker on a mission to raise public awareness about world's largest democracy that oscillates between being supreme to fallacious. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES