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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Jubilant Modi votes, India's ruling party fights to deny him majority

Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for India's main opposition BJP, takes "selfie" with mobile phone after casting his vote at a polling station during seventh phase of India's general election in Ahmedabad By Aditi Shah VADODARA, India (Reuters) - India's Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi looked triumphant after voting on Wednesday in the eighth stage of the world's largest election, but the man tipped to be the next prime minister is still not assured of winning an outright majority. Some 139 million people were registered in the 89 constituencies that polled on Wednesday in a race pitting Modi against the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty-led ruling Congress party and a pantheon of satraps. Casting his vote in his home state of Gujarat, the leader whose pro-business policies have delighted investors brandished his party's lotus symbol and taunted Congress heavyweights for shying away from the fight. The finance minister is not fighting the election.




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