Indians vote in final stage of gruelling election campaign

Constituencies going to polls include Narendra Modi’s, where he won huge majority in 2014

Indians are voting in the seventh and final phase of national elections, wrapping up a gruelling six-week-long campaign.

Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party is seeking re-election for another five years. The areas voting on Sunday include the prime minister’s constituency of Varanasi, a holy Hindu city where he was elected in 2014 with an impressive margin of more than 200,000 votes.

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