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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: India braces for world's biggest vote AFP - Wednesday, April 15 NEW DELHI (AFP) - - India's political leaders wrapped up campaigning Tuesday for the first phase of month-long elections that are expected to produce a hung parliament and a fragile coalition government. ADVERTISEMENT Thursday's vote will take in large swathes of northern and eastern India, including areas beset by a range of violent insurgencies involving tribal rebels, Maoist guerrillas and Muslim militants. In order to ensure voter safety, more than two million security personnel will be rotated around the country over the five phases of balloting that end on May 13, with results to be announced three days later. Campaigning is prohibited on the eve of polling in each region. Neither of India's two main national parties -- the incumbent Congress and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- is seen as capable of securing an absolute majority. With a myriad of other parties expected to grab up to 50 percent of the 543 parliamentary seats on offer, the final results are likely to kick off an intense period of political horse-trading as the main players rush to pull together a working coalition. "At the moment, Congress seems to have the advantage as more parties appear willing to do business with it," said Mahesh Rangarajan, a professor at Delhi University. "But if the Congress party falls short of 135 seats on its own, then finding partners will be difficult. I wouldn't say it's wide open but it's certainly an open situation." The main candidates for prime minister are both veterans. The incumbent, Manmohan Singh of the Congress Party, is 76, while his main challenger, the BJP's L.K. Advani, is even older at 81. The prospect of a shaky coalition of disparate allies is hardly an appealing one, with any new government facing key national security concerns and a steep economic downturn after years of soaring growth. "I don't think the government that will take office will last five years. I predict elections again after two or three years," said Sanjay Kumar, a fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Many of the more than 700 million registered voters are expected to cast their ballots along religious and caste lines or on the basis of strictly regional issues that impact their daily lives. During a rally in Mumbai on Tuesday, Prime Minister Singh urged voters to remember they were taking part in a nationwide election and to elect a "national party which has a reach all over the country, like the Congress." Advani, meanwhile, played up BJP accusations that the Congress-led government had been weak on terrorism. "It is only a matter of time before the Taliban reaches India's borders," he warned, accusing Congress of doing "nothing worthwhile" to tackle the terror menace. The campaign has become heated at times, and on Monday the Election Commission condemned unnamed party leaders for speeches "inciting communal hatred." One high-profile candidate, Varun Gandhi -- a scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty -- was jailed after threatening to cut off the hands of anyone who dared harm India's majority Hindus. The regions voting on Thursday include sensitive areas of Kashmir near the Pakistan border and northeastern states on the frontier with Bangladesh. "We have heightened our vigilance along the borders. Infiltration attempts are a serious matter," said the head of the paramilitary Border Security Force, M.L. Kumawat. The first phase involves 124 parliamentary seats which are being contested by 1,715 candidates. 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