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India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to win a record-equalling third consecutive term in office on Tuesday when the 642 million votes cast in the world's largest election are counted. Ashley J. Tellis, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, tells FRANCE 24's Mark Owen that…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was widely tipped to win India's election on Tuesday, in what would be a triumph for his Hindu nationalist drive that has thrown the opposition into disarray and deepened concerns for minority rights.

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.