Millions of Indians are voting in the second round of multi-phase national elections with some big names in the contest.
People queue up to vote behind a statue of the Hindu goddess of learning, Saraswati, during the second round of voting in the six-week long national election outside a polling booth in Kochi, southern Kerala state, India, Friday, April 26, 2024. People lined up outside polling stations as voting opened at 7 a.m. The turnout was expected to pick up as the day progresses.
The BJP already won one parliamentary seat from Surat in Gujarat state, where the Congress party candidate was disqualified Monday. Election officials said they found discrepancies in the signatures on the nomination and other candidates pulled out of the contest, leaving the BJP nominee as the winner.
"You could argue that the listlessness is a consequence of a foregone conclusion,” said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, an Indian academician.
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