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In a country, as a whole

In a country as populous as India, a general election takes a while to complete.

Over six weeks and seven stages, hundreds of millions of people will get to the polls.

Yesterday the latest phase began and in the state of Gujurat, Prime Minister Norendra

Modi himself cast a ballot before greeting crowds of cheering supporters.

This year Mr. Modi is expected to walk to a record equaling third term at the head of his Bartie Junta party or B.J. That ease is partly a reflection of his brand of politics, but also of his reputation for prosperity.

Simply put, lots of Indian voters think he's helping the country get rich,

and there are reasons to believe that. It's already the world's fifth largest

economy and on track to get to third by 2027. Private sector confidence is at

its highest since 2010, poverty down but there are also questions over whether

India's success can last and whether Mr. Modi really has all that much to do with it.

India is doing reasonably well but it's not the next China.

Arjun Ramani is our global business and economics correspondent.

So it's growing at around 6 to 6.5%, which makes it the fastest growing major economy in the world. But if you were to look at China or the Asian Tigers when they were this rich, they were growing at 10 plus percent.

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