Voting will be held on 57 seats in 7 states in the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections, all eyes on this VIP seat of Jammu and Kashmir.

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha elections are now in their final stages. Today, in the sixth phase, voting is going to be held for 58 seats in six states and two union territories, including all seven seats in Delhi. Apart from Delhi, voting will be held on 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 in Haryana, eight each in Bihar and West Bengal, six in Odisha, four in Jharkhand and one in Jammu and Kashmir. Apart from this, voting will also be held on 42 assembly seats of Odisha.
More than 11.13 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase. These include 5.84 crore men, 5.29 crore women and 5,120 third gender voters. Voting will also be held on Anantnag-Rajouri seat of Jammu and Kashmir.Who are the main candidates of the sixth phase?
Prominent candidates of the sixth phase include Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP) from Sambalpur (Odisha), Manoj Tiwari (BJP) and Kanhaiya Kumar (Congress) from North East Delhi, Maneka Gandhi (BJP) from Sultanpur (Uttar Pradesh), Anantnag-Rajouri. Mehbooba Mufti (PDP) from (Jammu and Kashmir), Abhijit Gangopadhyay (BJP) from Tamluk (West Bengal), former Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar from Karnal, Naveen Jindal from Kurukshetra and Rao Inderjit Singh from Gurugram seat. The Election Commission also urged voters to participate in the election festival in large numbers and vote with responsibility and pride. Let us tell you that in the fifth phase on May 20, 62.2 percent voting took place on 49 seats.

Know the status of 8 seats of West Bengal
Voting will be held in Jangal Mahal area of ​​West Bengal. This region consists of eight Lok Sabha constituencies in five districts. Voting is to be held in Tamluk, Kanthi, Ghatal, Jhargram, Medinipur, Purulia, Bankura and Bishnupur Lok Sabha constituencies on Saturday. In the last Lok Sabha elections, BJP had won five of these eight seats, while Trinamool Congress had won three seats. Shubhendu Adhikari and his/her family have considerable influence in Kanthi and Tamluk Lok Sabha constituencies and these constituencies are considered examples of dynastic politics. Adhikari’s family members have held important political positions. Shubhendu’s brother Soumendu Adhikari is contesting from Kanthi Lok Sabha seat on BJP ticket. In Tamluk, former Calcutta High Court judge and BJP candidate Abhijit Gangopadhyay is contesting against Trinamool Congress youth leader Debangshu Bhattacharya.

BJP vs India alliance on 7 seats of Delhi
There is a direct contest between BJP and ‘India’ alliance on seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi. As per the consensus reached among the constituents of the ‘India’ alliance even before the elections, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is contesting on four seats and Congress on three seats. This is the first Lok Sabha election when AAP and Congress are contesting together and challenging the ruling BJP at the Centre. AAP has fielded Kuldeep Kumar from East Delhi seat, Mahabal Mishra from West Delhi, Somnath Bharti from New Delhi and Sahi Ram Pehalwan from South Delhi. Congress has nominated JP Aggarwal from Chandni Chowk, Kanhaiya Kumar from North East Delhi and Udit Raj from North West Delhi seat. BJP has fielded Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi and he/she is the only sitting MP from the national capital whom the party has fielded again. BJP has fielded Ramveer Singh Bidhuri from South Delhi, Bansuri Swaraj from New Delhi, Harsh Deep Malhotra from East Delhi, Yogendra Chandolia from North-West Delhi, Praveen Khandelwal from Chandni Chowk and Kamaljit Sehrawat from West Delhi.

The fate of 14 seats in UP will be sealed
Voting will be held on 14 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh for the sixth phase of general elections, where the electoral fate of 162 candidates, including former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi, Trinamool Congress’s Lalitesh Pati Tripathi and Bhojpuri film actor Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua, will be decided. In the sixth phase, voting is to be held in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies of the state, Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Phulpur, Allahabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Shravasti, Dumariyaganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Lalganj, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Machlishahar and Bhadohi. In Sultanpur, BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi is contesting against Samajwadi Party (SP)’s Rambhual Nishad and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP)’s Udayraj Verma. On the Azamgarh seat, outgoing BJP MP Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua is contesting against SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s cousin Dharmendra Yadav. On Jaunpur seat, the party has again fielded sitting BSP MP Shyam Singh Yadav, who is facing competition from SP candidate and former minister Babu Singh Kushwaha and BJP’s Kripashankar Singh.

Know the status of 4 seats of Jharkhand
Around 82.16 lakh voters, including 40.09 lakh women, are eligible to exercise their franchise in Giridih, Dhanbad, Ranchi and Jamshedpur constituencies of Jharkhand. All four Lok Sabha seats in Jharkhand are likely to see a direct contest between the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM)-led ruling alliance and the BJP-led opposition. Congress leader Yashaswini Sahay, daughter of former Union Minister Subodh Kant Sahay, has a direct contest against sitting BJP MP Sanjay Seth on Ranchi Lok Sabha seat. In Dhanbad, there is a direct contest between BJP’s Baghmara MLA Dulu Mahato and Congress’s Bermo MLA Kumar Jaimangal’s wife Anupama Singh. There is also a possibility of a direct fight in Jamshedpur between BJP’s sitting MP Vidyut Baran Mahato and JMM’s Baharagora MLA Sameer Mohanty. In Giridih, All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU)’s Chandra Prakash Choudhary is contesting from JMM’s Tundi MLA Mathura Mahato. Voting will be held on Saturday for the elections for 10 Lok Sabha seats of Haryana and by-election in Karnal Assembly constituency in which the electoral fate of 223 candidates including former Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Kumari Selja of Congress will be decided.

Voting will be held on all 10 seats of Haryana
In Haryana, there is a direct contest between the ruling BJP and the opposition Congress on most of the seats. Union ministers Rao Inderjit Singh and Krishna Pal Gurjar, former Chief Minister Manohar Lal and senior Congress leaders Kumari Selja and Deepender Singh Hooda are among the prominent candidates for the Lok Sabha elections.
Khattar, the BJP candidate from the Karnal Lok Sabha seat, is contesting against Haryana Youth Congress President Divyanshu Budhiraja, while Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini is contesting the by-election from the Karnal Assembly seat. BJP’s Haryana unit president Saini had taken oath as the chief minister in place of Khattar on March 12. Saini is contesting the by-election from Karnal assembly seat. Nine candidates are in the fray for the by-election. Due to Khattar’s resignation from the post of MLA, it became necessary to hold by-election on this seat.

Voting today on one seat in Jammu and Kashmir
In Jammu and Kashmir, 20 candidates are in the fray, including Mehbooba Mufti from Anantnag-Rajouri constituency and National Conference’s Mian Altaf. Officials said that no stone is being left unturned to prepare for the elections. Multi-layered security arrangements have been made in the constituency spread across 18 assembly constituencies of Anantnag, Kulgam and Shopian in south Kashmir and Rajouri and Poonch districts in south Pir Panjal to ensure free, fair and peaceful polling.

Voters will decide today on 8 seats of Bihar
In the sixth phase, voting will be held on eight seats in Bihar, where about 1.5 crore voters of these areas will decide the political future of 86 candidates. All preparations have been completed for fair and peaceful voting on these eight seats of the state. The eight seats where voting will take place in this phase include Valmikinagar, West Champaran, East Champaran, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan and Maharajganj.

Voting also on 42 assembly seats of Odisha
In this phase in Odisha, voting will be held in six parliamentary constituencies – Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Puri and Sambalpur and 42 assembly constituencies under them. Lok Sabha and Assembly elections are being held simultaneously in the state.