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Jobs and rights on young voters' minds for India polls

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Indian voters pose with their voting slips outside a polling station at Dabua villageL, Faridabad, on April 10, 2014. [AFP]

Around 130 million young adults aged 18 to 22 will be newly eligible to vote in India's national elections when polls open Friday -- more people than the entire population of Mexico.

AFP asked four first-time voters who were too young to vote in the 2019 elections about who they would support and the issues that mattered to them:

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