Prime Minister Narendra Modi tipped for victory as India votes
Women stand in a queue outside a polling station to cast their ballot during the first phase of voting for the India 's general elections in Parbatsar in Rajasthan, on 19 April 2024. A total of 968 million people are eligible to take part in the world's biggest vote.
A long and winding queue was patiently assembled outside a polling station in the Hindu holy city of Haridwar, on the banks of the Ganges river, even before the booths opened. Construction of the temple fulfilled a long-standing demand of Hindu activists and was widely celebrated across India with back-to-back television coverage and street parties.Analysts have long expected Modi to triumph against a fractious alliance of more than two dozen parties that have yet to name a candidate for prime minister.
In doing so, they have sidestepped concerns over the taming of India's once-vibrant press and restrictions on civil society that have seen rights groups like Amnesty severely curtail their local operations.
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