Voting for 88 seats throughout 13 states might be held on Friday within the second spherical of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections on the heels of fierce campaigning, with a number of large names within the ballot fray.
All 20 Lok Sabha seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, eight every in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, seven in Madhya Pradesh, 5 every in Assam and Bihar, three every in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one seat every in Manipur, Tripura, and Jammu and Kashmir will see polling.
Polls in Madhya Pradesh’s Betul have been pushed to part 3 after the demise of the Bahujan Samaj Social gathering (BSP) candidate.
Greater than 15.88 crore voters are eligible to train their franchise in 1.67 lakh polling stations throughout the nation on Friday. Round 34.8 lakh first-time voters and three.28 crore voters within the age group of 20-29 years can vote. A complete of 1,202 candidates are within the fray, together with 1,098 male, 102 feminine, and two individuals from the third gender.
Notable candidates contesting within the second part of the elections embody Congress’s Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon, Congress’s DK Suresh from Bangalore Rural, Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s Shobha Karandlaje from Bangalore North, her celebration colleague Tejasvi Surya from Bangalore South, JD (S)’s HD Kumaraswamy from Mandya, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi from Wayanad, BJP’s Anil Antony from Pathanamthitta, Congress’s Shashi Tharoor and BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar from Thiruvananthapuram, BJP’s Gajendra Singh Shekhawat from Jodhpur, Congress’s Vaibhav Gehlot from Jalore, BJP’s Hema Malini from Mathura and Arun Govil from Meerut.
One of the crucial keenly-watched contests on this part would be the three-way conflict in Kerala’s Wayanad between incumbent MP Rahul Gandhi from the Congress, Communist Social gathering of India’s Annie Raja, and state BJP president Ok Surendran.
One other would function Congress’s incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor and union minister of state for electronics and knowledge expertise Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP in Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Nationwide Democratic Alliance is eyeing its third consecutive time period on the Centre this normal election with the slogan of “Abki baar 400 paar”, whereas events from the opposition INDIA bloc are banking on their guarantees of MSP for farmers, money handouts for girls, and extra reservations for the backward sections and minorities to stage an upset.
Within the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, the BJP-led NDA gained 61 of those 88 seats (BJP 52, Shiv Sena 4, JDU 4, and Unbiased 1). The Congress-led United Progressive Alliance bagged 24 seats (Congress 18, IUML 2, JDS 1, Kerala Congress Mani 1, RSP 1, and Unbiased 1) whereas different events gained 3 seats (BSP 1, CPM 1 and NPF 1).
With this part, polling will conclude in Kerala, Rajasthan, and Tripura. Within the first part on April 19, polling was accomplished in all seats of Tamil Nadu (39), Uttarakhand (5), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1) and Lakshadweep (1).
The Lok Sabha elections are being carried out in seven phases. The primary spherical was held on April 19 for 102 seats throughout 21 states and union territories, which noticed a truncated turnout in comparison with the 2019 version. The following part of polling for 94 seats in 12 states and union territories might be held on Could 7.
(With company inputs)
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