India election more than halfway through, Kashmir valley votes in Phase 4

Millions of Indians across 96 constituencies have cast their ballots as the country's gigantic, six-week-long election edges past its halfway mark.

Monday's polling in the fourth round of election across nine states and one union territory is pivotal for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, seeking a third straight term but facing the voters' fury over unemployment and inflation.

Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies are pitted against an alliance of more than two dozen opposition parties, including the main rival Indian National Congress party.