An Indian woman walks past a political m

An Indian woman walks past a political map of the country after casting her vote at a polling station in the village of Aamtem in Raigad district of Maharashtra some 105 kms south-east of Mumbai on April 23, 2009. India's mammoth general election lumbered into its second and largest stage Thursday, bringing in nearly 200 million more voters and the risk of fresh attacks by left-wing extremists. The latest round of balloting will stretch from the country's leading industrial state of Maharashtra in the southwest, across the heartland of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty in Uttar Pradesh, to the eastern, Maoist-wracked state of Bihar. The month-long, five-stage election -- the world's largest democratic exercise -- wraps up on May 13 with the final results expected three days later. With neither of the two main parties -- the incumbent Congress and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- seen as capable of securing an absolute majority, the likely outcome is an unsteady coalition that would struggle to see out a full term. AFP PHOTO/ Indranil MUKHERJEE (Photo credit should read INDRANIL MUKHERJEE/AFP via Getty Images)