Some of India's richest families, Bollywood stars and others are voting in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country as the fourth phase of a massive, staggered general election got underway
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi leaves after filing his nomination papers for the general elections in Varanasi, India April 26, 2019.
Many of the constituencies are in Uttar Pradesh state in the north and western India's Maharashtra, where the financial capital Mumbai is located. Uttar Pradesh elects the most MPs, with Maharashtra next, and both states are ruled by Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party .However, political analysts say the BJP may struggle to repeat its strong showing this time due mainly to a jobs shortage and weak farm prices, issues upon which the main opposition Congress party has seized.
Mumbai is home to the massive Hindi film industry, as well as Asia's richest man, Mukesh Ambani, and India's richest banker, Uday Kotak. The election, the world's biggest democratic exercise with about 900 million voters, started on April 11 with Modi in the lead amid heightened tension with long-time enemy Pakistan.There are a total of 545 seats in parliament's lower house.
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