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Modi votes in home state as mammoth India election hits half-way mark

A polling official checks the name of a woman before allowing her to cast her vote during the third round of voting in Agra, Uttar Pradesh [Altaf Qadri/AP]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among millions of voters across 93 constituencies that went to polls in the third phase of India’s mammoth general election.

The world’s most populous nation began voting on April 19 in a seven-phase election in which nearly one billion people are eligible to vote, with ballots set to be counted on June 4.

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