India completes epic election voting

India held the fifth and final phase of the world’s largest democratic election today, amid doubts over whether Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be returned to power with a stable government.

The massive ballot – involving some 368 million voters – took three weeks to conduct and could also decide the fate of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty, with opposition leader Sonia Gandhi looking for solid gains and her son Rahul entering politics for the first time.