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A supporter wears a t-shirt with a portrait of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and India’s next prime minister Narendra Modi as he dances with others outside the BJP party in New Delhi, on Friday, May 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)


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Indian security personnel are pictured as villagers look on following an overnight attack by suspected tribal militants on a village in Kokrajhar, in India’s northeastern state of Assam, on May 2, 2014. (AFP PHOTO/STR)


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India’s main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi, addresses his supporters during a campaign rally at Balasore, 124 miles (200 kilometers) from the eastern Indian city of Bhubaneswar, on April 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Biswaranjan Rout)


Narendra Modi: A Study in Polarization

Narendra Modi: A Study in Polarization

Mumbai, Asharq Al-Awsat—As India’s 800-million-plus voters began the six-week process of electing the country’s next government on Monday, one name was on the lips of every journalist, diplomat and political analyst: Narendra Damodardas Modi. A radical with an...
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Muslim women, who were displaced by deadly religious strife last year, stand in a queue to cast their votes for the general election at a polling station in Palra village in Muzaffarnagar district in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh April 10, 2014. (Reuters/Anindito Mukherjee)


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Indian voters wait in queues to cast their votes during the first phase of elections in Dibrugarh, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, Monday, April 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)


India begins world’s largest election

India begins world’s largest election

Gauhati, AP—India started the world’s largest election on Monday, with voters in the remote northeast making their way past lush rice paddies and over rickety bamboo bridges to reach the polls. Most parties were campaigning on promises of economic growth. The...