More than 157 million of India’s 900 million voters are eligible to cast ballots on the second of seven days of voting in the world’s biggest election. Security was also tight in West Bengal, notorious for political violence, where 15,000 troops were on duty in three constituencies voting Thursday. Modi has put protecting the nation at the centre of his campaign to secure a second five-year term. Gandhi has gone on a relentless attack against the economic record of Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Probable outcomes of Indian elections and PakistanAnd in rural areas, thousands of indebted farmers have killed themselves in recent years.

Source: The Express Tribune April 18, 2019 05:59 UTC