This week politicians across India are wooing voters and the final stretch of a massive election, the world's largest.

Yeah, we're just nearing the end of a 47-day election. There's

almost 970 million registered voters. That's almost 10% of the world's

population.

And they're spread all across the Himalayas.

They're spread in distant islands and relief camps.

So you have officials trekking and traveling dozens of miles,

even sometimes taking helicopters to go and collect the votes of these remote citizens.

And the External Affairs Minister of India

has called it the, quote, largest electoral logistics

exercise this planet has ever witnessed.

Karishma Marotra is a South Asia correspondent for the post. witnessed. And there is one clear front runner. Prime Minister Norendra Modi was seeking a third term.

So the leader of the ruling party, the Pariaganta party, the B.J. P.

is Nerengra Modi, who's been in power and the prime minister for the past decade.

And he's often touted as one of the world's most popular politicians,

if not at least the most strategic politician and he has sort of become the image in many ways of the direction that India has taken and he presents himself as sort of a saint or a god-like person in the fact that you know he's a single man he has no family so he works all day and all night for the country

Modi has tried to fire up his base in India's Hindi-speaking heartland where poverty is widespread, and he also

has the support of upper casks, many who embrace Hindu nationalism.

But Modi's platform and his right-wing party can be divisive, condemning

marginalized groups, including Indian Muslims. But even as that opposition argues that Modi is a threat to India's

democracy, the chances that they'll be able to block his win are low.

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