The leading candidates in this phase include Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav (Kanauj-UP), Union Ministers Giriraj Singh (Begusarai-Bihar) and Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur-Bihar), Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary (Behrampur-West Bengal). happens , BJP’s Pankaja Munde (BID – Maharashtra), AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi (Hyderabad-Telangana) and Andhra Pradesh Congress president YS Sharmila (Cuddapah) are in the fray.
Union Minister Ajay Kumar Mishra is trying to make a hat-trick from the Kheri (UP) seat. His son is an accused in the 2021 Lakhimpuri violence case. Trinamool Congress’s Mahua Moitra is also trying to reach Parliament again from Krishnanagar seat in West Bengal. He was expelled from the Lok Sabha for taking cash in exchange for asking questions.
The BJP-led NDA currently has MPs in more than 40 of these 96 Lok Sabha seats.
Voting was also held in 175 assembly seats of Andhra Pradesh.
Along with this, voting will also be held on 175 Assembly seats of Andhra Pradesh. The state has a triangular contest between the YSRC, the Congress-led ‘Bharat’ alliance and the NDA. The NDA in the state consists of BJP, Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP and Pawan Kalyan’s Janasena Party.
In the last assembly elections, YSRCP won 151 seats and TDP 23, while Jana Sena won one seat. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, YSRCP won 22 seats, while Chandrababu’s party won three Lok Sabha seats.
PMA surrounded Congress on Sam Pitroda’s statement
During this phase of the election campaign, BJP leaders led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi hit out at the Congress over ‘caste’ and ‘skin colour’ statements made by Rahul Gandhi’s close ally Sam Pitroda about Indians. He accused the ‘Bharat’ coalition parties of being ‘anti-Hindu’ and practicing ‘plunder and appeasement’ and ‘dynastic politics’.
Pitroda resigned as president of the ‘Indian Overseas Congress’ on the same day when the BJP besieged the Congress over his statement.
CM Yogi addressed several rallies in UP
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday addressed election rallies in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao, Kannauj and Kanpur, while the SP conducted a public outreach campaign in the Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency.
In Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav faces a tough electoral battle with BJP’s outgoing MP Subrata Pathak, while in Unnao, outgoing MP Sakshi Maharaj faces SP’s Anu Tandon.
Rahul Gandhi targeted PM Modi
Hitting out at the Congress and ‘Bharat’ alliance, Modi said on May 5 that Muslims now understand that Congress and the ‘Bharat’ alliance are using them as pawns, so the community is now looking at the development work done by the BJP. and ‘India’ have started distancing themselves from the coalition).
On Friday, Rahul Gandhi said that the ‘Bharat’ alliance storm is coming in Uttar Pradesh and Narendra Modi will not become the Prime Minister again.
Bihar’s 5 Lok Sabha seats are going to vote
Bihar’s Begusarai, Ujiarpur, Darbhanga, Samastipur and Munger Lok Sabha constituencies are going to polls on Monday. Out of these five constituencies, three seats Begusarai, Ujiarpur and Darbhanga are currently held by the BJP. After separate rallies by National Democratic Alliance (NDA)’s biggest star campaigner Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Darbhanga and Munger, the NDA is hopeful of winning these seats.
Leaders of all political parties tried to woo voters in Srinagar Lok Sabha seat. The National Conference has fielded Shia leader Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, while youth leader Waheed Para is from the People’s Democratic Party. The party has made Ashraf Mir its candidate.
Voting for the next three phases of general elections is on May 20, May 25 and June 1. Counting of votes will be held on June 4.
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