Election staff with EVM
In the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, voting will be held on 49 seats in six states and two union territories on Monday. Voting will also be held in two ‘high profile’ seats Rae Bareli and Amethi in this phase. Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi is in the fray from Rae Bareli and Union Minister Smriti Irani is in the fray from Amethi. Apart from these, the electoral fate of Union Minister Rajnath Singh and former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah will also be decided in this phase. A total of 8.95 crore voters are included in this round. Of these, 4.26 crore are women and 5,409 are ‘third gender’ voters. 9.47 lakh polling officers have been deployed at 94,732 polling stations.
On Monday, voting will be held on 13 seats in Maharashtra, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, seven in West Bengal, five in Bihar, three in Jharkhand, five in Odisha and one each in Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh. Of the seats that will go to polls in the fifth phase, more than 40 were held by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA). On the eve of voting, the Election Commission on Sunday said voters in Mumbai, Thane and Lucknow have shown indifference towards voting in the past and appealed to the city residents there to vote in large numbers. A total of 66.95 percent voting has taken place so far in the last four phases.
Voting on Rajnath and Piyush Goyal’s seats also
Other prominent candidates in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections include several Union ministers including Rajnath Singh (Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North, Maharashtra), Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti (Fatehpur, UP) and Shantanu Thakur (Bangaon, West Bengal). ), LJP (Ram Vilas) leader Chirag Paswan (Hajipur, Bihar), Shiv Sena’s Shrikant Shinde (Kalyan, Maharashtra) and BJP’s Rajiv Pratap Rudy and RJD president Lalu Prasad’s daughter Rohini Acharya (both Saran, Bihar). Voting will also be held in 35 assembly constituencies of Odisha, where BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is among the candidates.
Voting on these seats in Maharashtra
Voting will be held in 13 Lok Sabha constituencies of North Maharashtra and Mumbai Metropolitan Region. 2.46 crore citizens are eligible to vote in this phase to decide the electoral fate of 264 candidates. Union ministers and BJP leaders Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Bharti Pawar (Dindori) and Kapil Patil (Bhiwandi), Shiv Sena’s Shrikant Shinde (Kalyan), and Mumbai Congress chief Varsha Gaikwad and BJP candidate and lawyer Ujjwal Nikam (Mumbai North Central seat). ) are among the leading candidates in this round. Apart from these, voting will also be held in Dhule, Nashik, Thane, Palghar, Mumbai North West, Mumbai North East, Mumbai South Central and Mumbai South.
The fate of these leaders from UP will be decided today
Rahul Gandhi, who is contesting from Wayanad in Kerala, is contesting from Rae Bareli, the stronghold of the Nehru-Gandhi family, which his mother Sonia Gandhi had represented since 2004. BJP has fielded Uttar Pradesh minister Dinesh Pratap Singh from this seat. Union Minister Smriti Irani is in the fray in Amethi, while Congress has fielded KL Sharma, close to the Gandhi family. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Irani defeated Rahul Gandhi in Amethi. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh is eyeing a fourth term from Lucknow. He is contesting against SP’s sitting MLA (from Lucknow Central) Ravidas Mehrotra. In this phase in Uttar Pradesh, 14 Lok Sabha constituencies are Mohanlalganj (reserved), Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Jalaun (reserved), Jhansi, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi (reserved), Barabanki (reserved), Faizabad, Kaiserganj, Gonda. There will be voting. Other prominent candidates in the fifth phase are Union Minister Kaushal Kishore-Mohanlalganj, Union Minister Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma-Jalaun, Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and MP Lallu Singh-Faizabad Lok Sabha seat.
Voting on seven seats of West Bengal
22 candidates are in the fray in Baramulla, Jammu and Kashmir. Former Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is also contesting from this seat. 17.37 lakh voters are eligible to vote in this constituency. In Ladakh, there is a tough contest between Congress candidate Tsering Namgyal, BJP’s Tashi Gyalson and independent candidate and NC rebel leader Haji Hanifa Jaan. Voting will be held in seven parliamentary constituencies in West Bengal. Voting will be held in Bangaon, Barrackpore, Howrah, Uluberia, Serampore, Hooghly and Arambag Lok Sabha seats of the state. In Barrackpore, BJP candidate Arjun Singh is contesting against Trinamool Congress’s Partha Bhowmik and Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M)’s Debdoot Ghosh. Star campaigners including Prime Minister Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and party general secretary Abhishek Banerjee have held rallies for their respective party candidates.
Lalu’s daughter’s fate at stake in Bihar
Voting will also be held in five Lok Sabha seats of Bihar, Saran, Muzaffarpur, Hajipur, Sitamarhi and Madhubani on Monday. On behalf of NDA, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held rallies in Hajipur, Saran and Muzaffarpur. Chirag Paswan is contesting from Hajipur, while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates are contesting on the remaining two seats. In Saran, former Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy is contesting from Rohini Acharya, daughter of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) President Lalu Prasad. Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath have campaigned in favor of Rudy. Voting will be held for the by-elections of three Lok Sabha seats and Gandey Assembly seat in Jharkhand. In the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections, 22 candidates are contesting from Chatra, 15 from Koderma and 17 from Hazaribagh constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP had won these three seats.
Voting for assembly also in Odisha
Voting will be held for five Lok Sabha seats and 35 assembly constituencies of Odisha. Prominent candidates in the second round of simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in the state include Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and his colleagues in the state government, Bikram Arukha, Niranjan Pujari, PK Amat, Tukuni Sahu, Rita Sahu and SP Nayak. Altogether 40 candidates are contesting from Aska, Kandhamal, Bolangir, Bargarh and Sundargarh Lok Sabha seats while 265 candidates are in the fray for 35 assembly constituencies. The sixth and seventh phase of voting will be held on May 25 and June 1 respectively. Counting of votes will take place on June 4.
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