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Indian parties battle for nation’s industrial hub
Business leaders and Bollywood stars were among millions voting in elections in India’s western Maharashtra state yesterday, the first big electoral test for the centre-left Congress party since it won power five months ago.
The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), defeated in a general election in May, is looking for a comeback in Maharashtra, India’s second-most populous state and home to Bombay, its financial and movie capital. Voters streamed into polling stations when they opened at 7:30 a.m. (0200 GMT) in the state of nearly 100 million people, about the combined population of Germany and the Netherlands.
Opinion polls show Congress and its allies narrowly ahead of the BJP alliance and favourites to retain power in Maharashtra, also home to Bollywood, India’s Hindi-language film industry. Business leaders and Bollywood stars drove up in smart cars and lined up for their turn to press a button on electronic voting machines in the rich suburbs of Bombay.
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