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A six-week-long national election in India that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power neared its end Saturday as the last phase of voting began.

India's six-week election reaches its final day of voting Saturday, including in the holy city Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used as a staging post for his Hindu nationalist agenda.

Four days before polling, only one face dominates political posters through Punjab’s Khadoor Sahib city. That face belongs to Amritpal Singh, whose visage is splashed across the Lok Sabha constituency of the same name. The separatist leader, currently lodged in Dibrugarh jail in Assam, is contesting as an independent candidate.

Editorial: India’s prime minister encourages a belief in his divinity, leading followers to think it is God’s purpose to spread fear and loathing

Officials say a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims skidded and rolled into a deep gorge on a mountainous highway in India-controlled Kashmir, killing at least 21 people

In this episode of Another Election Show from Varanasi, we sat with the students of the city’s Banaras Hindu University to talk about Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s representation from the constituency, works of the central government and the local issues.  

“The workers have no problem with whatever candidate is fielded by the BJP,” said Virendra Kumar Gupta. “But if the workers are being ignored, then that’s an issue.”

Photographs by Shreya Shetty.

Five countries in South Asia are electing new governments this year. Among them is India, which has been competing with China for a larger share of influence in the region. 

Millions of Indians are voting Saturday in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third-consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party.

Even before India’s six-week general election has run its course, Hindu nationalists are confident the polls will result in a rare third term in office for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its leader Narendra Modi. But the opposition says the incumbents will face stiff competition in the final…