India heads to the polls in world’s biggest election - Egypt Independent

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India heads to the polls in world’s biggest election - Egypt Independent

Muzaffarnagar and New Delhi CNN  —  Polls opened Friday in the first and largest phase of India’s marathon election, in which populist Prime Minister Narendra Modi is widely expected to secure a rare third consecutive term and deepen his historic transformation of the world’s most populous nation. About 969 million people are eligible to vote in the biggest democratic exercise in human history, with polling taking place in seven phases over the…