Voters in India began heading to the polls on Friday in the first phase of a massive election lasting six weeks, with seats in India's lower house of parliament and another term for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at stake. The latest opinion polls put Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) far in the lead. The 73-year-old Modi is campaigning for a third five-year term as the country's leader. Voting began in 102 of a total of 543 constituencies, according to the Election Comm
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