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Sweets being prepared at a shop for celebration by political parties ahead of election results, in Patna, on wednesday. — PTI
Sweets being prepared at a shop for celebration by political parties ahead of election results, in Patna, on wednesday. - PTI

New Delhi - About 67 per cent of the 910 million electors had cast their vote in the seven-phase elections.

By PTI, Reuters

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Published: Wed 22 May 2019, 10:00 PM

Last updated: Thu 23 May 2019, 12:52 AM

The D-day is finally here. After an exhaustive six-week long electoral process, dubbed as the world's biggest democratic exercise, 1.3 billion Indians are waiting with bated breath as the counting of votes begins today.
Results are expected only by late evening due to tallying of voter-verified paper audit trail slips with voting machine counts for the first time. Nearly two dozen opposition parties have complained to the election panel of attempts to tamper with voting machines in vote-counting centres. It has rejected the accusation.
About 67 per cent of the 910 million electors had cast their vote in the seven-phase elections, in which over 8,000 candidates were in the fray for 542 seats. This was the highest ever-voter turnout in Indian parliamentarian elections.
The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) promised to rev up growth, double farmers' income and boost infrastructure spending in the next five years, after exit polls showed it would retain power.
The exit polls have predicted an outright majority for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's alliance in the election that ended on Sunday.
The coalition, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), which is led by Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), met in New Delhi on Tuesday confident of victory.
"The NDA has resolved to speed up economic growth and fulfil the needs of the people in the next five years of our government," Home Minister Rajnath Singh, a senior member of the BJP, told reporters. "We're committed to a strong, developed and inclusive India."
 



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