Campaign for fourth phase ends today

The vigorous election campaign for the fourth and penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha elections going to poll on May 7 in 85 constituencies across eight states, including Delhi, will come to an end at 5 pm on Tuesday.

With this, fate of some prominent candidates viz. BJP president Rajnath Singh, Congress leader Pranab Mukherjee, Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh and RJD chief Lalu Prasad would be sealed in the EVMs. Former BJP leader, Kalyan Singh is also fighting as an Independent with the support of Samajwadi Party from Etah (UP).

Some other well-known candidates, who are in the fray, are National Conference patron Farooq Abdullah, Congress leaders Kapil Sibal, Sachin Pilot, and Shekhar Suman, BJP`s Shatrugan Sinha and HJC`s Bhajan Lal.

In this phase, 1315 candidates are in the poll fray, including 1196 male and 119 female candidates. The largest number of male candidates (315) is contesting from Rajasthan and the largest number of female contestant (36) is in Uttar Pradesh.

Rajasthan (25) is among those where elections will be held in one-go; those are Haryana (10) and Delhi (7). The rest of the states to be covered in this phase are Punjab (4), West Bengal (17), Bihar (3), Uttar Pradesh (18) and Jammu & Kashmir (1).

In the National Capital Region Delhi’s seven Lok Sabha seats, prominent contestants whose fate would be sealed in EVMs are Vijay Goel (BJP), Ajay Maken (Congress) from New Delhi, Vijendar Gupta (BJP), Kapil Sibbal (Congress) from Chandni Chowk, Chetan Chauhan (BJP), Sandip Dikshit (Congress) from East Delhi, B L Sharma Prem (BJP), JP Aggarwal (Congress) from North East Delhi, Ramesh Vidhudi (BJP), Ramesh Kumar (Congress) from South Delhi, Meera Kauria (BJP), Krishna Tirath (Congress) from North West Delhi, Jagdish Mukhi (BJP), Mahabal Mishra (Congress) from West Delhi.