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00:00 Regardless of what exit polls may suggest, India's election commission says the voter
00:05 was the real winner in the country's marathon election.
00:09 It praised the complex logistical feat of the six-week poll, which saw a staggering
00:15 642 million people cast their ballots, half of them women.
00:20 Now though comes the tallying of votes in each of the country's 543 constituencies.
00:29 I don't think there can be a system like this anywhere else, where each step is decided,
00:34 what will happen at 6am, 6.15 and 6.30, the entire counting process is codified.
00:44 Nearly 970 million people, more than 10% of the world's population, were eligible to vote.
00:52 Election commission figures showed 66.3% of those cast their ballot, down roughly one
00:58 percentage point on the 2019 vote.
01:01 Exit polls have projected big wins for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP-led alliance,
01:07 and experts believe his appeals to Hindu nationalist sentiment will hand him a third term.
01:14 There's no doubt Modi's coming back.
01:16 He has to come back.
01:20 In Varanasi and across India, Modi has really worked a lot.
01:25 We can see what he's done in Varanasi.
01:29 Modi's opponents have been hamstrung by infighting, and what they say are politically motivated
01:35 criminal cases aimed at hobbling challengers.
01:38 On Sunday, Arvind Kedrewal, Chief Minister of New Delhi and a vocal opponent of Modi,
01:44 returned to jail after being granted interim bail during the campaign.
01:49 He was arrested in March in connection with a corruption case.
01:52 Kedrewal denies the accusations against him.