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Bhuvan BAGGA with Abhaya SRIVASTAVA in New Delhi

Hindu Holy City Votes As India's Six-week Election Ends

People stand below a water sprinkler installed on a pillar to cool off at a marketplace amid a heatwave in Varanasi, India (Credit: AFP)

India's six-week election reaches its final day of voting Saturday, including in the holy city Prime Minister Narendra Modi has used as a staging post for his Hindu nationalist agenda.

Modi is widely expected to win a third term in office after results are announced Tuesday, in large part due to the cultivation of his image as an aggressive champion of India's majority faith.

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