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Practising Sikhs and Jains are also vegetarians and abstain from alcohol.

And while the presidential fever broke the farther west I traveled, of the more than 200 people I spoke with, not one of them said they were going to abstain from voting.

Mr Kejriwal was released on interim bail for three weeks in May to campaign for the parliamentary elections on the condition that he would abstain from his official duties as chief minister.

Meanwhile, more Americans are “sober curious,” insofar as they are willing to take a short break from drinking or choose to abstain from alcohol altogether.

“And I felt powerless. Veganism is an act of choice to abstain from committing cruelty to anything. And that’s what I wanted to do.”