People wait in a queue to cast their votes outside a polling station during the first phase of the Lok Sabha, or lower house, of the Indian parliamentary elections in Banihal, an area in the Ramban district of Udhampur parliamentary constituency. The 2024 Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament) parliamentary elections mark the first major election in Jammu and Kashmir since New Delhi revoked Article 370, the region's special semi-autonomous status, in 2019. Voting in India, the world's largest democracy, is scheduled to be conducted in seven phases between April 19 and June 1, 2024. (Photo by Teera Noisakran/Pacific Press)