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Millions head to polls in penultimate round of India's grueling election

Voters queue to cast their votes at a polling station in Prajapatipur village, Bhadohi district in India's Uttar Pradesh state on May 25, 2024, during the sixth phase of voting in India's general election. India is voting in seven phases over six weeks to ease the immense logistical burden of staging an election in the world's most populous country. © Niharika Kulkarni, AFP

Millions of Indians are voting Saturday in the next-to-last round of a grueling national election with a combined opposition trying to rattle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s campaign for a third-consecutive term for himself and his Hindu nationalist party.

Many people lined polling stations before the start of voting at 7 a.m. to avoid the blazing sun later in the day at the peak of Indian summer.

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