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Modi favourite as India's incredible election begins

The election will be held in seven phases

India's gargantuan election, the biggest in history, kicked off on Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking a second term from the South Asian behemoth's 900 million voters.

Opinion polls put 68-year-old Modi as the favourite, but he faces a tough challenge from two scions of India's storied Nehru-Gandhi dynasty attempting to capitalise on his poor record on jobs and rural poverty.

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