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Mishing tribal women show the indelible ink marks on their index fingers after casting their votes in Majuli, Assam, India
LEFT Front leaders lodged a complaint with India’s Election Commission today, alleging that voters have been threatened with violence to deter them from backing opposition candidates.
Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury warned on Sunday: “If manipulation of the election continues the way it did in the first phase, the Election Commission may lose credibility.”
Voting is currently under way to elect a new national government, with right-wing Prime Minister Narendra Modi asking Indians to re-elect his Bharatiya Janata Party for another five-year term.
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