Indians are voting in the seventh and final phase of a 6-week-long national elections
Electronic Voting Machines and other election material are distributed to officers before they proceed to their respective booths at a distribution center in Kolkata , India, Saturday, May 18, 2019.
Modi has played up the threat of Pakistan, especially after the suicide bombing of a paramilitary convoy on February14 that killed 40 Indian soldiers. Some of Modi's boldest policy steps, such as the demonetisation of high currency notes to curb black-market money and bring a large number of people into tax net, proved to be economically damaging. A haphazard implementation of "one nation, one tax"— goods and services tax — also hit small and medium businesses.
The election has taken place in a charged atmosphere as Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party sought a second term by pushing policies that some say have increased religious tensions and undermined multiculturalism. The campaigning has been marred by accusations and insults, as well as the unprecedented use of social media.
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