JAIPUR, India -- India on Friday began voting in the first of its seven-phase general elections that will carry on until early June, the world's biggest electoral exercise, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is eyeing a third straight five-year term.
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India opens world's biggest elections with lower house voting
Results of the multistage poll will be tallied by early June
A woman shows her ink-marked finger after casting her vote at a polling station in Jaipur, India, on April 19. (Photo by Shinya Sawai)
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