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Young men walk past a wall with an election awareness message in Hyderabad, India, on April 9. By Jennifer Hassan Jennifer Hassan Social media editor for the foreign desk Email Bio Follow April 17 at 4:45 AM Roughly one in eight people on the planet is eligible to vote in India’s national election that began on April 11. From mega cities to remote mountain villages, nearly 900 million voters will choose India’s next leader in an election so big it takes six weeks to complete.
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