First stage of world’s largest election under way in India

SiliconBeat— The second round will be held on April 26, and turnout is expected to increase over the course of the voting. Authorities said the voting was largely peaceful on Friday. Media reports said that some supporters of Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress party clashed in Chhindwara, a city in central India, during the voting.

The Washington Times—Elections kick off in India, world's largest democracy. The greatest exercise of democracy in the history of mankind -- by the numbers, at least -- kicked off Friday as almost 1 billion people began casting votes for the next leader and government of India.

Scroll.in—Ballot boxes, inking fingers: An 85-year-old remembers India’s first General Election. In that election, India became the world’s largest democracy, though my 13-year-old self was blissfully ignorant that I was witnessing a historical event.

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