Some political posters on the way to Maldevta. Ironically, the Congress candidate for Tehri, Vijay Bahuguna, is the first cousin of B.C. Khanduri, the BJP MP for Pauri, demonstrating vividly that party politics in Uttarakhand are dominated by a few families. The topmost poster shows the former raja, Manabendra Shah who carried the seat for the BJP. A small black and white poster below his belongs to Munna Chauhan of the SP. While Chauhan is personally popular, belonging to Mulayam Singh Yadav's party has lost him much support that would have otherwise gone his way.