India Calls Election as Modi Rise Threatens Congress Rule
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India will start voting next month to determine if Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s ruling party can fight off a resurgent opposition and extend its decade-long rule of the world’s most-populous democracy.
About 815 million eligible voters, more than double the U.S. population, will pick 543 lawmakers in nine rounds of voting from April 7 to May 12, the Election Commission of India said today. Results will be announced on May 16 as votes are counted from the Himalayas to islands in the Bay of Bengal.