Anti-graft party faces key test in marathon India election

NEW DELH: India’s upstart anti-graft party faced a key test on Thursday as the national capital voted in the first major phase of the country’s marathon gene- ral elections.

The third phase of voting began at 7 a.m. (1:30 a.m. Manila time) in 91 constituencies, representing nearly a fifth of the 543-seat lower house, across the capital and 13 other states, including Maoist insurgency-hit eastern India.