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Modi favorite as India’s incredible election begins

by Simon STURDEE NEW DELHI, India (AFP) — India’s gargantuan election, the biggest in history, kicks off on Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second term from the South Asian behemoth’s 900 million voters. Opinion polls put Modi, 68, as the favourite but he faces a tough challenge from not one but two scions of India’s storied Nehru-Gandhi dynasty attempting to capitalize on his poor record on jobs and rural poverty. Because of […]