New Delhi. The Lok Sabha elections are now on the way to end. Till now Lok Sabha elections have been held in 4 phases. After the 4th phase of Lok Sabha elections, now the 5th phase is going to be held on 20th May. Voting will be held on 49 seats in 8 states in the 5th phase of Lok Sabha elections. With the voting in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, the public will decide the fate of the candidates on 428 seats. There are 543 seats in the Lok Sabha.
In the 5th phase, voting is to be held on 13 seats in Maharashtra, 13 in UP, 5 in Bihar, 5 in Odisha, 1 in Jammu and Kashmir, 7 in West Bengal and 3 in Jharkhand. Many veteran candidates are in the fray in the 5th phase of Lok Sabha elections. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh is once again trying his luck as BJP candidate from Lucknow seat. At the same time, Smriti Irani from Amethi seat, Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli, Union Minister Piyush Goyal from Mumbai North, famous lawyer Ujjwal Nikam from Mumbai North-Central seat, Chirag Paswan from Hajipur seat of Bihar and BJP’s Rajiv from Saran seat of the same state. There is going to be a war between Pratap Rudy and Lalu Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya.
According to the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), there are 695 candidates in the 5th phase of Lok Sabha elections. Of these, 159 are of criminal background. There are cases against 4 candidates for murder and 28 for attempt to murder. There are cases against 29 candidates for atrocities against women. There is also a rape case against one of them. 5 candidates of Samajwadi Party have criminal image. 19 candidates from BJP, 8 from Congress, 3 from TMC, 3 from Uddhav Thackeray’s Shiv Sena, 1 from RJD, 3 from Shiv Sena and 2 from AIMIM are involved in criminal cases. In the 5th phase of Lok Sabha elections, 227 candidates are crorepatis. Maximum 36 BJP candidates are crorepatis. The average assets of the two candidates of Sharad Pawar’s NCP faction are Rs 54.64 crore.