In the world's largest democratic exercise, voters in 18 Indian states and two Union Territories are casting ballots on the first day of a seven-phase election, staggered over 6 weeks in the country of 1.3 billion people.
A voter shows an ink mark on her index finger after casting her ballot in Hyderabad, India, on Thursday.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.NEW DELHI — Polls opened Thursday in the first phase of India's general elections, seen as a referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party.
In the world's largest democratic exercise, voters in 18 Indian states and two Union Territories are casting ballots on Thursday, the first day of a seven-phase election staggered over six weeks in the country of 1.3 billion people. Modi came to power in 2014 and the party invoked its Hindu nationalist roots before the elections, with Modi at the forefront against the threat of Pakistan, India's Muslim-majority archrival. Hindus comprise about 80 percent of India's 1.3 billion people.
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