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Lok Sabha Election: Now countdown begins for the Seventh Phase of Polls

New Delhi, Tue, 22 Apr 2014 NI Wire

Now all is set for another important phase of election as now campaigning across 11 states and one union territory where 179 million voters are eligible to decide the political fate of over 2,000 candidates in 117 seats. Now Country will ready to face the seventh round of the 10-phase polls across the subcontinental size country, which began April 7 and culminates May 12. The results will be out May 16, paving way for a new government.

Election will be held for six seats in Assam, seven in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, one in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, 10 in Madhya Pradesh, 19 in Maharashtra, five in Rajasthan, 39 in Tamil Nadu, 12 in Uttar Pradesh, six in West Bengal and one in Puducherry.

It will be third and final phase of voting in Assam, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra.

A total electorate of 179,084,206 gets to vote across the length and breadth of the country - right from Jammu and Kashmir to Tamil Nadu and from Assam to Maharashtra.

The maximum 53,752,682 voters are in Tamil Nadu and the least 901,357 in Puducherry.The fate of a total of 2,095 candidates across the country will be sealed in the Electronic Voting Machines during this round.

A maximum 846 nominees are in the fray in Tamil Nadu and just a dozen in Jammu and Kashmir's only cosntituency Anantnag where opposition Peoples Democratic Party chief Mehbooba Mufti is locked in a bitter electoral battle with ruling National Conference candidate Mehboob Beg.

Nurturing national ambitions, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and AIADMK supremo J. Jayalalithaa is going alone in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

For the DMK, which too is going it alone this time, a good performance will help it grab national attention again. The lone Puducherry seat too is witnessing a keen contest.

In Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who harbours prime ministerial ambitions, and daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav are both seeking re-election, respectively, from in Mainpuri and Kannauj cosntituencies.

Yesteryear's "Dream Girl Hema Malini is slugging it out on a BJP ticket in Mathura against Rashtriya Lok Dal's sitting MP Jayant Chowdhary, son of union Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh.

The candidates in Rajasthan include India's former cricket captain Mohammad Azharuddin, union ministers Namonarain Meena and Jitendra Singh of the Congress, former DGP Harish Meena and Mahant Chandnath of the BJP, and Kirodi Lal Meena of the National People's Party.

In Assam, the main contestants are Ramen Deka and Bijoya Chakraborty (BJP), Manas Bora (Congress), Badaruddin Ajmal (All India United Democratic Front), Chandan Brahma (Bodoland People's Front), Birendra Prasad Baishya (Asom Gana Parishad), and former Meghalaya governor R.S. Mooshahary (Trinamool Congress).

In Bihar where the voting has been staggered, balloting takes place in Kishanganj, Purnea, Araria, Katihar, Supaul, Bhagalpur and Banka -- all of them having sizeable Muslim population. The BJP has been winning most of the Seemanchal seats, except Kishanganj for nearly two decades.

(With inputs from IANS)


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