New Delhi: With the start of voting in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections today, an electoral mega-kumbh is going to take place in the world’s largest democracy. In the first phase, voting will be held on 102 seats in 21 states and union territories. Prominent candidates in this phase include Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Sarbananda Sonowal and Bhupendra Yadav, Congress’s Gaurav Gogoi, DMK’s Kanimozhi. Along with this, assembly elections will also be held in Arunachal Pradesh (60 seats) and Sikkim (32 seats) in the first phase. According to the Election Commission, voting will start at 7 am and continue till 6 pm.
More than 16.63 crore voters will vote
According to reports, the commission has deployed more than 18 lakh polling personnel at 1.87 lakh polling stations. More than 16.63 crore voters will be able to exercise their franchise at these polling stations. The voters include 8.4 crore men, 8.23 crore women and 11,371 third gender. Of these, 35.67 lakh people have become first-time voters and there are 3.51 crore youth voters in the age group of 20-29 years.
INDIA alliance is hopeful of comeback
In these elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP-led NDA is trying to win more seats, while the constituents of the opposition alliance ‘INDIA’ are hoping to make a comeback after consecutive defeats in the 2014 and 2019 elections. The states where voting will be held on all seats in the first phase include 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 fate of many veterans will be captured in EVM.
Voting will also take place today on 12 seats in Rajasthan, 8 in Uttar Pradesh, 6 in Madhya Pradesh, 5 each in Assam and Maharashtra, 4 in Bihar, 3 in West Bengal, 2 in Manipur and one seat each in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh. will be. Apart from Gadkari, Sonowal and Yadav, six other Union ministers – Kiren Rijiju, Sanjeev Balyan, Jitendra Singh, Arjun Ram Meghwal, L Murugan and Nishith Pramanik, two former chief ministers – Biplab Kumar Deb (Tripura) and Nabam Tuki (Arunachal) are in the fray in this phase. State) and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Sundararajan are in the fray. In the last election (2019), UPA had won 45 out of these 102 seats and NDA had won 41 seats.
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