India election campaign ends

Ruling Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi warned Saturday of an India divided by caste and creed if the Hindu nationalist opposition wins power, as campaigning ended in the nation's multi-stage election.
Gandhi sought to muster a final show of Congress strength in the holy Hindu city of Varanasi with the party struggling to snatch victory from the jaws of a widely forecast election defeat by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The BJP "only wants to divide people, make people fight each other," Gandhi told a rally in temple-studded Varanasi, one of the last constituencies due to vote in Monday's final day of balloting.
The results of the marathon election will be known Friday, according to AFP.