NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a spiritual break Saturday as India's acrimonious marathon election wound to a close after almost seven weeks awash with insults, violence and fake
NEW DELHI - Prime Minister Narendra Modi embarked on a spiritual break Saturday as India's acrimonious marathon election wound to a close after almost seven weeks awash with insults, violence and fake news.
Modi's hectic campaign which started in March has seen him address three rallies a day on average, crisscrossing the length and breadth of the geographically diverse nation of 1.3 billion people. Modi is seeking a second term from India's 900 million voters after leading his right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party to power in 2014, with results due on 23 May.
The rival parties have thrown almost daily barbs at each other, accusing each other of corruption, nepotism and fake nationalism.
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