{"id":63434,"date":"2024-04-19T11:30:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T02:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term"},"modified":"2024-04-19T11:30:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T02:30:01","slug":"voting-begins-in-indias-election-with-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63434","title":{"rendered":"Voting begins in India\u2019s election with Modi widely expected to win third term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First phase in world\u2019s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week period<\/p>\n<p>Voting has begun in India\u2019s mammoth general election, as Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party hopes to increase its parliamentary majority amid allegations that the country\u2019s democracy has been undermined since it came to power 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s elections are the largest democratic exercise in the world, with more than 969 million voters, amounting to more than 10% of the world\u2019s population. The voting began at 8am on Friday, when polling opened at 102 constituencies across the country, and will continue over the next six weeks, in seven phases, until 1 June. All the results will be counted and declared on 4 June.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/19\/voting-begins-india-election-modi-widely-expected-to-win-third-term\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First phase in world\u2019s largest democratic exercise begins, with 969 million people eligible to vote over six-week periodVoting has begun in India\u2019s mammoth general election, as Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata party hopes to increase its parliamentary &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63435,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63434\/revisions\/63435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}