India’s marathon vote ends, Modi on tenterhooks over second term 0 SHARES Share it! Share TweetBy Agence France-PresseVoting ended Sunday in India’s most acrimonious election in decades, one that will decide whether Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi gets a second term in power. Modi’s constituency in Varanasi, the Hindu holy city in northern Uttar Pradesh state, was also among those to vote. Most attention has focused on the BJP campaign to project Modi’s strongman image, playing up recent cross-border air strikes against Pakistan. Modi and Gandhi have hurled near daily insults at each other with the prime minister calling his rival a “fool” while Gandhi derides Modi as a “thief”.

Source: Manila Bulletin May 19, 2019 20:15 UTC