India will elect a new parliament in seven phases between Apr 19 and early June, the country’s election authority said on Saturday (Mar 16), in what amounts to the world’s largest election with nearly one billion eligible to vote.
The election pits two-term strongman Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his regional allies against a bickering alliance of two dozen opposition parties, with surveys suggesting a comfortable win for Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
A victory would make Modi, 73, only the second prime minister after Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s independence hero and its first prime minister, to win a third straight term.
India vote to start on Apr 19, Modi says confident of win
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