India election vote counting begins - video Dailymotion

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Early vote counting is underway across India on Tuesday (June 4) as local TV channels showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance racing to a clear majority in the 543-member lower house of parliament.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00 Early vote counting is underway across India on Tuesday, as local TV channels showed Prime

00:08 Minister Narendra Modi's Paratiya Janata Party, or BJP-led alliance racing, to a clear

00:15 majority in the 543-member lower house of Parliament.

00:20 The first votes counted are postal ballots, which are paper ballots, mostly cast by troops

00:25 serving outside their home constituencies or officials away from home on election duty.

00:32 Counting is expected to last several hours, as the large majority of votes polled in electronic

00:37 voting machines.

00:39 The TV channels showed the ruling National Democratic Alliance was ahead in more than

00:43 300 seats, with BJP alone ahead in 255.

00:48 The opposition India alliance led by Rahul Gandhi's Congress Party was ahead in 172

00:54 seats, with Congress alone ahead in 71.

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India election vote counting begins

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