MUMBAI: Nearly 100 million Indians began voting in state elections in the first major test of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s popularity since he stormed to power in May on a pledge to reform the economy.
Five months after Modi’s rightwing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won a landslide national victory, voters are electing two regional assemblies – in Haryana in the north and huge Maharashtra state in the west – of which Mumbai is the capital.
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