NEW DELHI: Indian lawmakers voted Monday to pick the country’s president, who is certain to come from the lowest Dalit caste, in an election seen as strengthening Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s grip on power.
Some 4,900 legislators nationwide voted in what Modi termed a “historic” election to choose the titular head of state.
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