Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Prime Ministerial candidate, Narendra Modi (L), files his nomination form.
VADODARA: Indian election front-runner Narendra Modi waved to thousands of cheering supporters as he filed his papers to stand in the country’s mammoth six-week election which entered its second of nine phases.
Modi, a hardline Hindu nationalist widely tipped to emerge as prime minister when results are published on May 16, is standing from the Vadodara constituency in the western state of Gujarat.
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