India elections: millions turn out in first big day of voting

14 states and territories including Delhi and Uttar Pradesh go to the polls on third day of voting for Indian parliament

Millions of people have turned out to vote across Delhi and the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh amid tight security on the first big day of the Indian general election.

Outside a polling station in a middle-class neighbourhood in south Delhi, six policemen guarded the entrance and journalists were asked to keep their distance as a steady trickle of voters arrived.

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source Guardian