India will start its general election on Apr 19, with nearly 1 billion people eligible to vote. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party are expected to win a comfortable victory against a bickering alliance of opposition parties.
India will begin voting in phases starting Apr 19 in a general election, the country's election authority said on Saturday (Mar 16), the world's largest election in which nearly 1 billion people are eligible to cast ballots. The parliamentary poll 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. Modi and his party have been in campaign mode for months before the dates for the vote were announce
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