A six-week-long national election in India that is a referendum on Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s decade in power ended on Saturday as Indians cast ballots in the last phase of voting. If Modi wins, he’ll be only the second Indian leader to retain power for a third term after Jawaharlal Nehru, the country’s first prime minister.

 

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