India 2024 election: who are the candidates for next prime minister?
In the fourth round of a seven-week general election, India held voting on Monday, amid increasingly aggressive campaigning focused on religious and economic divides.
Nearly one billion people are eligible to vote in this seven-phase election, which got underway on April 19 in the most populous country in the world. In a race that sets his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against an alliance of more than two dozen opposition parties, including chief foe Congress, prime minister Narendra Modi is vying for a rare third term in office.
In this fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections, 64.60 per cent of voters participated throughout
