India’s general election has begun with voters casting ballots in two remote northeastern states. Billed as the world’s largest democratic exercise, the staggered election involving some 815 million voters will conclude in five weeks.
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Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), or common man party, supporters shouting slogans gather at Rajghat, the memorial of Mahatma Gandhi after their chief Arvind Kejriwal, was slapped by an attacker during his election campaign in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, April, 8, 20
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A Kashmiri activist of the National Conference party shouts slogans at an election rally on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Voters in India's remote northeast cast ballots on the first day of the world's biggest election Monday,
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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard as National Conference party leader Farooq Abdullah speaks during an election rally on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Tuesday, April 8, 2014. Voters in India's remote northeast cast ballots on the first day o
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A polling official, center, carries an electronic voting machine as he and security personnel wait for vehicles to go to respective polling centers on the eve of the second phase of Indian parliamentary elections at Senapati, in north eastern Manipur stat