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Elderly voters sit as others stand in a queue to vote during the second round of voting in the six-week-long national election near Palakkad, in Indian southern state of Kerala, Friday, April 26, 2024. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India begins second phase of national elections with Modi’s BJP as front-runner

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

India's top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, center, arrives at the Parliament in New Delhi, India, Monday, Aug.7, 2023. India's Parliament on Monday reinstated Gandhi as a lawmaker three days after the country's top court halted his criminal defamation conviction for mocking the prime minister's surname. (AP Photo)

India’s opposition leader Rahul Gandhi condemns the Modi government over violence in Manipur

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

FILE- Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference after he was expelled from parliament after a court convicted him of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in an election speech, in New Delhi, India, March 25, 2023. India’s Parliament on Monday, Aug. 7, 2023 reinstated top opposition leader Rahul Gandhi as a lawmaker three days after the country’s top court halted his criminal defamation conviction for mocking the prime minister’s surname. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

Rahul Gandhi, Indian opposition leader, reinstated as lawmaker days after top court’s order

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Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference after he was expelled from parliament after a court convicted him of defamation and sentenced him to two years in prison for mocking the surname Modi in an election speech, in New Delhi, India, March 25, 2023. India's top court on Friday stayed the criminal defamation conviction of opposition leader Rahul Gandhi for mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname — a conviction that disqualified him from being a member of parliament. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India’s top court temporarily halts conviction of opposition leader for mocking Modi’s surname

By Ashok Sharma - Associated Press

Indian opposition leader Rahul Gandhi addresses a press conference after being expelled from parliament in New Delhi, India, Saturday, March 25, 2023. A high court in Western India’s Gujarat state on Friday, July 7, has dismissed opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s plea to stay his conviction in a criminal defamation case that resulted in his expulsion from Parliament. Gandhi was convicted in March in a case brought by a lawmaker from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party after comments he made in 2019 were deemed to be insulting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's surname. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

An Indian state court won’t stay Rahul Gandhi’s defamation verdict in a blow to his election hopes

Associated Press

FILE-In this May 21, 2019 file photo, United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, center, with her son and the then Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, pays homage to former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary in New Delhi, India. Sonia Gandhi took back the reins of the party from her son Rahul on Saturday. She'll be interim president until the party elects a new leader. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s main opposition Congress party in throes of crisis

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

India’s Congress party appoints Sonia Gandhi interim chief

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FILE - In this May 21, 2019, file photo, Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, greets people during a function in New Delhi, India. Gandhi has resigned as president of India's opposition Congress party to take responsibility for its crushing defeat in recent elections. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

Rahul Gandhi, scion of Indian political dynasty, resigns

By AIJAZ HUSSAIN - 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

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

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

Supporters of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav are seen through dust as a helicopter carrying Yadav lands at an election rally venue in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, Sunday, May 5, 2019. With 900 million of India's 1.3 billion people registered to vote, the Indian national election is the world's largest democratic exercise. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

Violence mars 5th phase of India’s marathon elections

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, April 16, 2019, photo, engineering student Mayank Thakur, 18, stands for a photograph in New Delhi, India. With nearly half the electorate under 35 and more than 15 million first time voters, India's young can swing the national vote in the world's largest democracy in any direction. “Unemployment is very high in India currently. India has a lot of engineers who haven’t been able to develop their skills because there aren’t enough jobs for them in India,&quot; Mayank told the Associated Press. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s population skews young, which may sway its elections

By RISHABH R. JAIN - Associated Press

In this in April 2, 2019, photo, United Progressive Alliance Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, second left, sits with her son and Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi, second right, at the India National Congress party headquarters to release its manifesto for the upcoming general election, in New Delhi, India. Jawaharlal Nehru, his daughter Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi ruled the country for about a half a century cumulatively after India won independence from Britain in 1947. Rajiv Gandhi's son, Rahul Gandhi, is now the Congress party leader and a potential candidate for prime minister if the opposition can stitch an alliance to stop the Modi juggernaut. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

India’s Congress party chief files election nomination

By BISWAJEET BANERJEE - Associated Press

FILE- In this Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017, file photo, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of Congress party President Rahul Gandhi, waves to party supporters during an election campaign rally in Rae Barelli in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, the scion of India's most famous political dynasty, has formally entered party politics with opposition Congress party assigning her a position as it prepares for the national elections due before May. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh, file)

Sonia Gandhi’s daughter enters India politics ahead of vote

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, July 18, 2018 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, second right, greets cabinet colleagues as he arrives on the opening day of the monsoon session of the Indian parliament in New Delhi, India. Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday accused the government of failing to live up to its promises as Parliament begins debating a no-confidence motion moved by the opposition against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup, File)

India’s Parliament rejects no confidence against motion

By ASHOK SHARMA - Associated Press

No spot for Gandhi in Cabinet reshuffle

By Nirmala George - Associated Press

The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange, top center, addresses the media outside the High Court in London, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. A British judge released Julian Assange on bail Thursday, freeing the WikiLeaks founder to work on his secret-spilling website from a mansion in eastern England. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

WikiLeaks: US fears bioweapons from India labs

By RAVI NESSMAN - Associated Press

Leak: US fears theft of bioweapons from India labs

By RAVI NESSMAN - Associated Press