NEW DELHI: Hundreds of millions of Indians begin voting this week in an election likely to endorse five more years of rule by Hindu nationalists promising gradual economic liberalisation and peace with Pakistan.
Opinion polls show Atal Behari Vajpayee's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) easily seeing off a listless challenge from the Congress party of Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, widow of assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
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