India to Announce Polling Dates for World’s Biggest Elections

Voters at a polling station in Mumbai in 2019.

Photographer: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images
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The Election Commission of India will announce the dates for national polls Saturday, officially kicking off campaigning in the world’s biggest democracy.