Rahul Gandhi & Priyanka Gandhi wave at the crowd in the road show after Rahul Gandhi filing nominations from Wayanad district on April 4, 2019 in Kalpetta town in Wayanand, India. Rahul Gandhi, the scion of India's unofficial first family, took position as president of India National Congress while challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the country's general election after suffering his worst ever defeat in 2014. The 48-year-old reluctant political leader is the son of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and grandson of India's only female Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who were both assassinated, but hopes to claim the prime ministership while facing constant criticism as leader of the Congress. Around 900 million people will be casting their ballots during India's general election, which is scheduled from 11 April to 19 May and considered the world's biggest democratic exercise. (Photo by Atul Loke/Getty Images)





A woman casts her vote on the demo electronic voting machines and checks on Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail or VVPAT as others wait in the queue during an election awareness drive by district administration amongst the tea garden laborers ahead of India's general election in Jorhat, India, Monday, April 1, 2019. A VVPAT vending machine is an independent printing system connected to the electronic voting machines that allows voters to check that their votes are being cast as intended. The system will be used in the upcoming national elections to be held in seven phases starting from April 11. Votes will be counted on May 23. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





Men watch Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing to the nation, on a TV screen inside their shop in Kolkata, India, March 27, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





Kashmiri Muslims pray as the head priest displays a relic at the Hazratbal shrine on the occasion of Mehraj-u-Alam, believed to mark the ascension of Prophet Muhammad to heaven, in Srinagar Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, April 4, 2019. Thousands of Kashmiri Muslims gathered at the Hazratbal shrine, which houses a relic believed to be a hair from the beard of Islam's Prophet Muhammad. (Photo by Dar Yasin/AP Photo)





Members of India's Karbi tribe return home after a daylong work at a paddy field near Kaziranga national park in Golaghat district, Assam, India, Sunday, April 7, 2019. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)





An elderly supporter of ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) smiles a he attends an election campaign rally addressed by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Hyderabad, India, Monday, April 1, 2019. India's general elections will be held in seven phases starting April 11. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





An Indian Hindu woman performs a ritual on the occasion of the “Sheetala Saptami” festival in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan on March 27, 2019. The folk deity “Sheetala Mata” is worshipped on the seventh day of the Hindu month Chaitra, where women of the community pray for the well being of their family. (Photo by Himanshu Sharma/AFP Photo)





Indian residents walk across a makeshift bridge over a sewage canal under the Digha Bridge link road in Danapur, in the Indian state of Bihar on April 7, 2019. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)





An infant lies on the back of a woman as she performs a ritual while worshipping Sheetala Mata, the Hindu goddess of smallpox, during Sheetala Puja in which devotees pray for the betterment of their family and society, in Kolkata, India, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A woman lies in an isolation tank during floatation therapy in Mumbai, India March 28, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Women hold earthen pots with fire during a ritual while worshipping Sheetala Mata, the Hindu goddess of smallpox, during Sheetala Puja in which devotees pray for the betterment of their family and society, in Kolkata, India, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A worker displays T-shirts with images of (L-R) Chief Minister of West Bengal state Mamata Banerjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress party chief Rahul Gandhi and logo of Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI (M), for sale inside a shop at a market ahead of the general election, in Kolkata, March 26, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A supporter of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wearing a mask of Prime Minister Narendra Modi checks his mobile phone as he attends an election campaign rally being addressed by Modi in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, March 28, 2019. (Photo by Adnan Abidi/Reuters)





People attend the funeral of Taweef Ahmad, a suspected militant, who according to local media reports was killed during a gun battle with Indian security forces today, in Gadbugh village in South Kashmir's Pulwama district April 1, 2019. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





A salesman shows a sari, a traditional clothing worn by women, with printed images of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, a leader of India's main opposition Congress party, to a customer inside a shop in Kolkata, April 2, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





A man walks past a woman who sits by a wall with graffiti that mocks Indian politicians ahead of the general election in Kolkata, April 1, 2019. (Photo by Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters)





People dressed in traditional costumes ride scooters and motorbikes as they attend celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival, the beginning of the New Year for Maharashtrians, in Mumbai, April 6, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





A woman dressed in a traditional costume gestures as she attends celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival, the beginning of the New Year for Maharashtrians, in Mumbai, April 6, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Women dressed in traditional costumes ride motorbikes as they attend celebrations to mark the Gudi Padwa festival, the beginning of the New Year for Maharashtrians, in Mumbai, April 6, 2019. (Photo by Francis Mascarenhas/Reuters)





Indian people in traditional clothes take part in the procession to celebrate the Gudi Padwa, Maharashtrian's New Year in Mumbai, India, 06 April 2019. Gudi Padwa is the Hindu festival that falls on the first day of Chaitra month and marks the beginning of the Lunar Calendar, which dictates the dates for all Hindu festivals, also known as Panchang. (Photo by Divyakant Solanki/EPA/EFE)





A priest holds a baby boy as they seek blessings for him inside the temple of Goddess Alopi Devi during Navratri festival in Prayagraj, April 6, 2019. (Photo by Jitendra Prakash/Reuters)





A man walks next to concertina wire laid across a national highway on the outskirts of Srinagar, April 7, 2019. (Photo by Danish Ismail/Reuters)





India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters attend an election campaign rally in Hyderabad, India, Monday, April 1, 2019. India's general elections will be held in seven phases starting April 11. (Photo by Mahesh Kumar A./AP Photo)





Mumbai's historic railway station Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus is seen before the lights were switched off for Earth Hour, in Mumbai, India, Saturday, March 30, 2019. Earth Hour takes place worldwide and is a global call to turn off lights for 60 minutes in a bid to highlight the global climate change. (Photo by Rajanish Kakade/AP Photo)





A couple performs morning rituals in the River Ganges on the first day of the nine-day Hindu festival of Navratri on the outskirts of Prayagraj , in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, India, Saturday, April 6, 2019. Hindus are celebrating Navaratri, or the festival of nine nights, with three days each devoted to the worship of Durga, the goddess of valor, Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, and Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge. (Photo by Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo)





Indian labourers carry clay bricks to a brick kiln in Farakka, in the Indian state of West Bengal, on April 3, 2019. (Photo by Xavier Galiana/AFP Photo)