India Begins World’s Largest Election

Indian voters wait in queues to cast their votes during the first phase of elections in Dibrugarh, in the northeastern state of Assam, India, April 7, 2014

• AP / Wasbir Hussain  

 April 6, 2014

India’s 814 million registered electors are heading to the voting in stages over the next five weeks in the planet’s largest exercise in democracy. The opposition BJP, making promises of economic change, is looking strong in the opinion polls

(GAUHATI, India) — India started the world’s largest election 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.

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