next Image 1 of 2prev Image 2 of 2The Latest on India's general election (all times local):7:15 p.m.Voting in India's mammoth national election has ended with the seventh and final phase of a grueling poll that lasted more than five weeks, with exit polls predicting that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party and its allies will win the right to govern for another five years. Vote counting begins on Thursday, and the election result will likely be known the same day. ___7:30 a.m.Indians are voting in the seventh and final phase of national elections, wrapping up a 6-week-long long, grueling campaign season with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party seeking reelection for another five years. The voting on Sunday also covers Modi's constituency of Varanasi, a holy Hindu city where he was elected in 2014. He has adopted a nationalist pitch in trying to win votes from the country's Hindu majority by projecting a tough stance against Pakistan, India's Muslim-majority neighbor and archrival.

Source: Fox News May 19, 2019 13:41 UTC