New Delhi: Under the third phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024, the election campaign for 94 seats in 12 states stopped at 6 pm on Sunday evening. Voting on these seats will be held on Tuesday, May 7. The seats for which elections will be held in this phase include 25 seats in Gujarat, 14 in Karnataka, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, nine in Madhya Pradesh, seven in Chhattisgarh, five in Bihar, four in Assam and two in Goa. Are.
Uttar Pradesh
Voting will be held in Sambhal, Hathras, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Amla and Bareilly parliamentary seats of Uttar Pradesh. There are 100 candidates in the fray in the third phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh, while 1.88 crore voters will be able to vote. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav is trying to retain her hold on the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, which she won in the by-election held after the death of her father-in-law and SP patron Mulayam Singh Yadav. Akshay Yadav, son of SP Chief National General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav, is again in the fray from Firozabad seat. Aditya Yadav is starting his electoral career from Badaun Lok Sabha seat, considered the stronghold of SP. Rajveer Singh, son of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and veteran BJP leader Kalyan Singh, is hoping to score a ‘hat-trick’ from Etah in the third phase of elections. The main contest in Bareilly is between Chhatrapal Singh Gangwar of BJP and Praveen Singh Airan of SP. Congress has fielded Ramnath Singh Sikarwar from Fatehpur Sikri, while its ally Samajwadi Party has fielded its candidates from the remaining nine parliamentary constituencies.
Madhya Pradesh
During the elections for nine seats of Madhya Pradesh, the political future of three big stalwarts Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia and Digvijay Singh will be decided. During this period, more than 1.77 crore voters will decide the fate of 127 candidates contesting for nine seats. These include seats reserved for Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST). These nine seats of Madhya Pradesh include Morena, Bhind (SC), Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh and Betul (ST) constituencies. Veteran BJP leader and former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is contesting from Vidisha seat after almost 17 years, which he has represented in the Lok Sabha several times in the past. Shivraj is contesting from Congress candidate Pratap Bhanu Sharma. On the Rajgarh seat, veteran Congress leader and former Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, 77, is facing off against two-time BJP MP Rodmal Nagar. BJP hopes to win all 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh. In Guna seat, the votes of Yadav community can swing the electoral tables and here Scindia is facing competition from Congress’s Yadvendra Singh Yadav. In 2019, Scindia was the Congress candidate, but lost to BJP’s KP Yadav in this stronghold of the Scindia family. Scindia, a scion of the former royal family of Gwalior, left the Congress in 2020 and joined the BJP. Chauhan looks comfortable in Vidisha, but the contest may be close in Rajgarh. Digvijay Singh won from Rajgarh seat in 1984 and 1991, but lost in 1989. He became the Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh in 1993.
Chhattisgarh
Out of the 11 Lok Sabha seats of Chhattisgarh, the seven seats for which elections will be held include Raipur, Durg, Bilaspur, Janjgir-Champa (SC), Korba, Surguja (ST) and Raigarh (ST). Elections are to be held in Chhattisgarh in three phases. Voting has been held in Naxal-affected Bastar (ST) on April 19 and for Rajnandgaon, Kanker (ST) and Mahasamund seats on April 26. In the ‘high-profile’ Raipur seat, BJP’s influential Minister of State Brijmohan Agarwal will face former Congress MLA Vikas Upadhyay. In Korba, BJP has fielded its influential woman leader and former MP Saroj Pandey against Jyotsna Mahant, wife of Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and sitting Congress MP Jyotsna Mahant. On Durg seat, Congress has fielded Rajendra Sahu against sitting BJP MP Vijay Baghel. On Bilaspur seat, Congress has fielded outgoing MLA Devendra Yadav against former BJP MLA Tokhan Sahu. Former minister of state Shivkumar Dahria is the Congress candidate from Janjgir-Champa, the only SC reserved seat, who will face BJP’s woman leader Kamlesh Jangade. On Surguja seat, there will be a contest between Chintamani Maharaj of BJP and Shashi Singh of Congress, who left Congress before the 2023 assembly elections. The tribal-dominated Raigarh seat will see a contest between BJP’s Radheshyam Rathiya and Congress’ Dr. Maneka Devi Singh, who hails from the former royal family of Sarangarh. 168 candidates are in the fray for seven seats in Chhattisgarh, while the number of eligible voters is 1,39,01,285.
Gujarat
Campaigning for the by-elections for 25 Lok Sabha seats and five assembly seats in Gujarat has also stopped. BJP’s Mukesh Dalal has already won unopposed from Surat after the nomination of Congress’ Nilesh Kumbhani was rejected and other candidates withdrew their nominations. Prominent candidates from Gujarat include Union Home Minister Amit Shah from Gandhinagar seat, Mansukh Mandaviya from Porbandar seat and Parshottam Rupala from Rajkot seat. In Gujarat, Congress has fielded four sitting and eight former MLAs and is contesting the elections in alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Under the agreement, Congress got 24 seats (including Surat), while AAP was given Bhavnagar and Bharuch. AAP has fielded sitting MLA Chaitra Vasava from Bharuch seat and Umesh Makwana from Bhavnagar seat. According to election officials, a total of 4.97 crore persons in Gujarat, including 2.56 crore men, 2.41 crore women and 1,534 people of third gender, will be able to vote at 50,788 polling stations.
Goa
More than 11 lakh voters are eligible to exercise their franchise for the elections on two Lok Sabha seats in Goa. Sitting BJP MP Shripad Naik is contesting against Congress candidate Ramakant Khalap for the North Goa seat. On the South Goa seat, BJP has fielded Pallavi Dempo, executive director of Dempo Industries, against Congress’s Viriato Fernandes. The South Goa Lok Sabha seat is currently held by Francisco Sardinha of Congress.
Maharashtra
Among the 11 out of 48 seats in Maharashtra where elections will be held, Baramati seat is also included, where Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule is contesting from Sunetra Pawar (wife of Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar). Apart from this, elections will be held in Raigarh, Osmanabad, Latur, Solapur, Madha, Sangli, Satara, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur and Hatkannangle seats of Maharashtra. Prominent candidates from Maharashtra include Congress’s Sahu Chhatrapati from Kolhapur seat, BJP’s Udayanraje Bhosale from Satara seat and Union Minister Narayan Rane from Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg seat. A total of 2.09 crore people are eligible to vote for 258 candidates in the third phase, for which 23,036 polling stations have been set up, an election official said.
West Bengal
Officials said a total of 73,37,651 voters are eligible to exercise their franchise at 7,360 polling stations for the four Lok Sabha seats of West Bengal – Malda North, Malda South, Jangipur and Murshidabad. He said that out of 57 candidates contesting in this phase, 14 are from Jangipur seat, 15 from Malda North seat, 17 from Malda South seat and 11 from Murshidabad seat. In Murshidabad, there will be a contest between senior CPI(M) leader Mohammed Salim, Trinamool Congress (TMC)’s Abu Tahir Khan and BJP candidate Gauri Shankar. For Malda North seat, Trinamool Congress has fielded former Indian Police Service officer Prasun Banerjee, while Congress has given ticket to Mustaq Alam and BJP has fielded Khagen Murmu as its candidate. On Malda South seat, BJP has fielded Srirupa Mitra Choudhary, Congress has fielded Isha Khan Choudhary and TMC has fielded Shahnawaz Ali Raihan. In Jangipur seat, TMC’s Khalilur Rahman will face BJP’s Dhananjay Ghosh and Congress’s Mohammad Murtaza Hussain (Bokul).
Karnataka
Elections will be held for 14 seats in Karnataka. Elections for 14 out of 28 seats in Karnataka were held in the first phase on April 26. Prominent candidates from Karnataka in the third phase also include Union Minister Pralhad Joshi, who is trying to reach the Lok Sabha for the fifth consecutive time from Dharwad seat. After the death of Congress MLA Raja Venkatappa Naik in February this year, by-election will also be held in Shorapur assembly constituency of Yadgir district on May 7. The 14 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka for which voting is being held on Tuesday include Belgaum (Belagavi), Uttar Kannada, Chikkodi, Bagalkot (Bagalkot), Bidar, Haveri, Dharwad, Koppal, Bellary (Ballari), Raichur, Bijapur (Vijayapura). , Davangere and Shimoga and Gulbarga (Kalaburgi).
Bihar
A total of 54 candidates are in the fray for five Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. Voting will be held in Araria, Supaul, Jhanjharpur, Madhepura and Khagaria seats of Bihar, which are currently with the ruling NDA. Of the three seats going to polls in the third phase, three, Supaul, Jhanjharpur and Madhepura, are currently held by the JD(U), which has given tickets to the respective sitting MPs on these seats. Araria and Khagaria seats have gone to the Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) led by Chirag Paswan. RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav campaigned intensively for all the five seats including Khagaria and Jhanjharpur but his party is not contesting on these seats. Big CPI(M) leaders were in the news due to their absence in Khagaria, where the party is contesting from the only seat in Bihar this time. The newly formed Vikassheel Insaan Party led by former Bihar minister Mukesh Sahni is contesting the Jhanjharpur seat. Sahni’s party has got a total of three seats in Bihar.
Assam
In the third phase in Assam, voting will be completed for all 14 seats in the state with the voting for four seats – Dhubri, Barpeta, Kokrajhar (ST) and Guwahati constituencies. In Assam, Barpeta seat has the maximum number of 14 candidates, while Guwahati seat has the least number of eight candidates. In Guwahati, there is a direct contest between BJP’s Bijuli Kalita Medhi and Congress candidate Meira Borthakur Goswami, both contesting the Lok Sabha elections for the first time. The Barpeta seat will see a contest between NDA’s ally Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) candidate Phanibhushan Chaudhary, CPI(M)’s Manoranjan Talukdar and Congress’s Deep Bayan. There is a triangular contest on the Dhubri seat between AIUDF leader Badruddin Ajmal, Congress MLA Rakibul Hussain and NDA ally AGP’s Javed Islam. Kokrajhar (ST) is expected to see a triangular contest between NDA ally United People’s Party Liberal (UPPL)’s Jayant Basumatary, Congress’s Garjan Musahari and Bodoland People’s Front (BPF’s) Kampa Borgoyri. (input language)
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