Hundreds of millions vote in India’s legislative elections

SANAA, April (YPA) – Polling stations in India have opened on Thursday morning to hundreds of millions of voters who will cast their votes in the general elections, which will be held over a period of about six weeks.

The elections are being held in seven stages from now until May 19, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking a second term, competing with the Gandhi-Nehru descent of Rahul Gandhi.

Some 900 million people are entitled to vote to choose a new government that will take over the next five years in a massive democratic process.

From April 11 to May 19, voters will select 543 deputies in the Indian House of Representatives ” Lok Sabha”, which will govern the Asian country with a population of 1, 25 billion people from the capital New Delhi, according to the Electoral Commission.

The results will be announced on May 23 after the vote counting process is complete, the commission said.

Hundreds of political parties in this culturally and geographically diverse country participate in the elections, but Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the leftist Congress party are the two strongest rival parties.

E.M