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The world's largest polling exercise began Thursday with an estimated 9 crore Indians coming out to vote for electing 91 parliamentarians in the first phase of over-a-month-long Lok Sabha elections for which the Modi government has made nationalism its core pitch against a fragmented opposition, even as poll-related violence saw at least two deaths. Complaints poured in about missing voter names and glitches in electronic voting machines in some areas.        West Bengal, where voting took place for two Lok Sabha seats, saw the maximum 81 per cent voting.