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India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah is showered with flower petals as he arrives at the party office in new Delhi, India, Thursday, May 23, 2019. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party claimed it had won reelection with a commanding lead in Thursday's vote count, while the stock market soared in anticipation of another five-year term for the pro-business Hindu nationalist leader. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Modi surges to victory in India on Hindu-first platform

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE – In this May 16, 2014 file photo, opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi greets the gathering at the home of his 90-year-old mother in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party claimed it had won re-election with a commanding lead in vote count Thursday, May 23, 2019. Modi, 68, the leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, has carefully constructed an image of himself as a pious man of the people, a would-be monk called to politics who has elevated India’s status globally and transformed its parliamentary elections from a contest of political parties on social and economic issues into a cult of personality. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

India’s Modi paints image of Hindu ascetic called to power

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indian policemen stand guard outside a vote counting center in Ahmadabad, India, Wednesday, May 22, 2019. India's Election Commission has rejected opposition fears of possible tampering of electronic voting machines ahead of Thursday's vote-counting to determine the outcome of the country's mammoth national elections. Authorities on Wednesday tightened security at counting centers where the electronic voting machines have been kept in strong rooms across the country. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)

India’s ruling party claims win with assured lead in votes

By Emily Schmall - Associated Press

FILE- In this Thursday, May 16, 2019 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, is offered a giant floral garland during an election rally in Mathurapur, south of Kolkata, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Modi has taken his Bharatiya Janata Party’s fight to the state of West Bengal, where it hopes to retain a majority in staggered general elections concluding this week by diluting the strength of a formidable opponent, chief minister Mamata Banerjee. (AP Photo/Bikas Das, File)

India’s ruling party takes election battle to West Bengal

By JULHAS ALAM and EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Clashes during election rally in east India injure several

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Election officers carry electronic voting machines before proceeding towards their allotted polling stations on the eve of polling in Prayagraj, India, Saturday, May 11, 2019. The sixth phase of the seven-phased general elections will be held Sunday. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s marathon election reaches next-to-last phase

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

Congress party supporters take selfies during an election campaign rally in New Delhi, India, Thursday, May 9, 2019. In total, some 900 million people are registered to vote for candidates to fill 543 seats in India's lower house of Parliament. Voting concludes on May 19 and counting is scheduled for May 23. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

Indian minister projects ruling party win as polls near end

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 1, 2019 file photo, India's Congress party President Rahul Gandhi attends a public rally in Mumbai, India. It has taken 15 years for this politician to come of age. Political observers in India are examining whether the scion of the country’s most important modern political dynasty can retain a seat in Parliament and revive his party’s fortunes. With India’s marathon general election inching toward the finish line, opposition Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi is beginning to seem like more of a credible leader. But it’s unclear whether the 48-year-old has done enough to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Gandhi scion comes into his own as India polls near finish

By AMRIT DHILLON - Associated Press

Indian polling officials and police with electronic voting machines and voter verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT) sit inside a vehicle before heading to a polling station on the eve of the first phase of general election in Majuli, Assam, India, Wednesday, April 10, 2019. Voting will take place in seven phases over six weeks beginning Thursday. Nearly 900 million people, including 15.9 million first-time voters, are eligible to cast ballots in the world's largest democratic exercise. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)

4 killed in Indian election violence as voting kicks off

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi personally continues to be more popular at the national level than any other leader, but local issues and personalities largely influence national elections. (Associated Press/File)

Narendra Modi campaigns on security in India elections

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury - Special to The Washington Times

FILE- In this Feb. 7, 2019, file photo, students from various organizations participate in a demonstration demanding more job opportunities in New Delhi, India. According to the Centre for Monitoring the Indian Economy, employment actually contracted in the year following demonetization by 3.5 million jobs. The think tank said unemployment reached 7.4 percent in December 2018, its highest rate in more than two years. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Jobs, castes and other issues in India’s general elections

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

From Left, Indian Foreign Minister Suushma Swaraj, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah release BJP's manifesto for the upcoming general elections in New Delhi, India, Monday, April 8, 2019. India's general elections are scheduled to be held in seven phases starting from April 11. Votes will be counted on May 23. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s ruling party releases manifesto days before election

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FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2019, file photo, Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav, right, greets Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on her birthday in Lucknow, India. Longtime political archrivals in India's most populous state have stitched an inventive political alliance that fuses votes from the ancient Hindu caste system to take on the ruling Hindu nationalist party-led government. (AP Photo/Nirala Tripathi)

India political rivals join hands in bid to top ruling party

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

India’s main opposition Congress party releases manifesto

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Hindu devotees march in a procession to participate in spiritual-cleansing baths in the Sangam, the confluence of the rivers Ganges, Yamuna, and the mythical Saraswati at the Kumbh Festival, in Allahabad, India, Monday, Jan. 14, 2019. India's Hindu nationalist-led government is splurging on a religious megafest, spending unprecedented sums as part of a strategy to focus on the country's majority Hindu population ahead of a general election due this year. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India’s gov’t boosts massive Hindu festival, eyeing election

By EMILY SCHMALL - Associated Press

Congress party supporters hold a cut-out of party President Rahul Gandhi and celebrate outside the party headquarters in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018. The Congress party won in the states of Chhatisgarh and Rajasthan, while it was in a close fight with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Madhya Pradesh state. (AP Photo)

Indian Prime Minister Modi’s party loses key state elections

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this May 2, 2004 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee greets the audience as he arrives for a ceremony at the Presidential Palace in New Delhi, India. Former prime minister Vajpayee, who pursued both nuclear weapons and peace talks with Pakistan, died Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018, at age 93. (AP Photo/Gurinder Osan)

India’s Vajpayee, who set off nuke race and peace, has died

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

In this Dec. 23, 2017, file photo, an worker is silhouetted as he prepares a temporary structure for Christmas and New Year celebrations in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala state, India. Though Christians make up only about two percent of India's 1 billion-plus population, Christmas is a national holiday celebrated with much fanfare. (AP Photo/R S Iyer, File)

Narendra Modi blamed in rise of India’s Christian persecution

By Jason Overdorf — Special to The Washington Times

FILE- In this Aug. 20, 2012 file photo, Indian Muslims offer Eid al-Fitr prayer at Shahi Masjid at the famous Taj Mahal in Agra, India. India's famed monument of love, the white marble Taj Mahal, is finding itself at the heart of a political storm with some members of India's ruling Hindu right-wing party claiming that the mausoleum built by a Muslim emperor does not reflect Indian culture. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)

Monument of love, the Taj Mahal, at heart of political storm

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

Bollywood actress Richa Chadha is best known for her role as a tough-talking gun moll in Gangs of Wasseypur. (Image: Courtesy of Hardly Anonymous Communications)

Swara Bhaskar among Bollywood actresses portraying empowered Indian women

By Jason Overdorf - Special to The Washington Times