Indian tribal groups find themselves in the electioin spotlight

With phase three of voting in India's election underway, the country's adivasi - or tribal groups - have long said they have been ignored by mainstream politics.

A group of tribal women and children in Kerala, India Source: Getty Images

Many of Kerala’s tribal communities in Wayana struggle to get by, and when the floods hit last year, that made a bad situation even worse. 

But now, an area no one was talking about is suddenly in the spotlight as a key constituency in the elections.