India’s Lok Sabha election, what’s at stake

NEW DELHI — The top has come for India’s 47-day marathon election for the decrease home of Parliament, the Lok Sabha, by which nearly a billion voters, from the Himalayas within the north to faraway islands within the Indian Ocean, have taken half.

As election officers trekked for miles, by foot, hoof and helicopter, to gather the votes of probably the most distant residents, India’s prime diplomat, S Jaishankar, known as it the “largest electoral logistics train that this planet has ever witnessed.”