More than 125 villages in Chhattisgarh will vote in own booths for first time

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From Gadiraas police station to the nearby villages on the outskirts of Sukma city, it is a bumpy ride..

Now the villagers point towards a mountain and say that the Naxals have retreated there after a new camp was established by the CRPF at Mankapal..

But this is no ordinary village - it is one of the 126 villages in Chhattisgarh which have got a polling station for the first time since Independence...

Manju Kawasi, sarpanch of Gufri village about 12 kilometres from Sukma, told ET, "A resident of Gufri village will have to trek 5-6 kilometres to reach a polling station..

Similarly, residents of Gonderas village would have to trek 25 kilometres and scale a mountain and cast their vote in Kondre..