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India started counting votes from its staggered, six-week election on Tuesday. Exit polls by major television channels have predicted a comfortable win for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies. Modi is now expected to serve a third five-year term, after a decade in power. His business-friendly policies have won him widespread support among India’s corporations and industry. However, Modi is a controversial figure domestically and internationally, with his party accused of inflaming anti-Muslim sentiment. Modi’s Hindu nationalist party faced off…

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