Most pollsters say Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will win a second five-year term in a general election that began on Thursday to elect parliament’s lower house. As Indians vote across one million polling stations over five weeks, the question is whether their attention, recently focused on border clashes with Pakistan, has returned to a lackluster economy. Mr. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition is riding a surge of nationalism after a February terrorist attack in Kashmir by Pakistan-based jihadists killed...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 14, 2019 19:52 UTC