160 million registered voters were eligible to cast ballots for state legislative assemblies

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks set to gain a major boost to his 2019 re-election hopes, with exit polls indicating his party is well ahead of rivals in the country’s most populous state after voting in the 2017 assembly elections. The vote, which came to a close Wednesday, had been viewed as a major test…

New Delhi (dpa) – Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, and Manipur, among the country’s smallest, were voting Wednesday in the final phase of polls across five Indian states. A total of 160 million registered voters were eligible to cast ballots in the staggered polls to state legislative assemblies that began on February 4. Voting has…