Lok Sabha election 2024 phase 6:
Overview of phase6 Elections:
Everything is ready for tomorrow, May 25, when the Lok Sabha elections 2024 phase 6 votes are scheduled to take place. Voters from 58 Lok Sabha seats distributed across eight states plus UT will exercise their right to vote during the sixth phase. Eight seats in Bihar, ten seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four seats in Jharkhand, seven seats in Delhi, six seats in Odisha, fourteen seats in Uttar Pradesh, and eight seats in West Bengal will be up for vote. In addition, polls will be held in 42 Odisha assembly constituencies.
Key seats in phase 6:
Speaking of the key seats in the phase 6 Lok Sabha elections are New Delhi, North-East Delhi, North-West Delhi, Chandni Chowk; Sultanpur and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir’s Anantnag-Rajouri; West Bengal’s Tamluk, Medinipur; Haryana’s Karnal, Kurukshetra, Gurgaon, Rohtak and Odisha’s Bhubaneswar, Puri and Sambalpur.
Top candidates in Lok Sabha elections phase 6:
1. Bansuri Swaraj (BJP):The late Union Minister Sushma Swaraj’s daughter is Bansuri Swaraj. She is running for the Lok Sabha seat from New Delhi against Somnath Bharti of the AAP. The BJP won every seat in the Lok Sabha in both the 2014 and 2019 elections.
2. Manoj Tiwari (BJP) and Kanhaiya Kumar (Congress): The contest in North East Delhi will include two prominent contenders: Manoj Tiwari, the current Member of Parliament, and Kanhaiya Kumar of the Congress. The BJP, which emerged victorious in the nation’s capital in the 2019 elections, lost six of its seven members this time around and kept actor turned politician Tiwari as its single member.
3. Maneka Gandhi (BJP): Menaka Gandhi is running for the Sultanpur Lok Sabha constituency, where she will face off against Ram Bhual Nishad of the Samajwadi Party and Uday Raj Verma of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).
4. Sambit Patra (BJP): Sambit Patra is running from the Odisha seat of Puri. He is running against Arup Patnaik of the BJD and Jay Narayan Patnaik of the Congress. Patra has stirred up controversy in politics by claiming, “Lord Jagannath is a devotee (bhakt) of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.” This is BJD’s Patnaik’s second consecutive Lok Sabha election; he was the Mumbai Police Commissioner before. He ran for the Lok Sabha seat in Bhubaneswar in 2019, but Aparajita Sarangi of the BJP defeated him.
5. Naveen Jindal (BJP): There will be a triangular contest in Kurukshetra, Haryana, during the phase 6 votes. Industrialist Naveen Jindal, a candidate for the BJP, is up against Sushil Gupta of the AAP and Abhay Singh Chautala of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD). Jindal was the Kurukshetra parliamentary constituency’s representative from 2004 to 2014. He joined the BJP in March after defecting from the Congress. He lost to Raj Kumar Saini of the BJP in 2014, and the Congress did not nominate him for the 2019 elections.
6. Manohar Lal Khattar (BJP): Manohar Lal Khattar, a BJP candidate and former chief minister of Haryana, is running from the Karnal constituency against Divyanshu Budhiraja, a Congress candidate. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured every seat in Haryana in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, with Sanjay Bhatia emerging victorious from the Karnal seat.
7. Raj Babbar (Congress): The contest between Raj Babbar of the Congress and Rao Inderjit Singh, the current MP and former minister for the BJP, will take place in Gurgaon, Haryana. Singh has triumphed twice previously. He had won the seat with 881,546 votes (60.9%) in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, while Ajay Singh Yadav of the Congress had been defeated. He received 644,780 votes (48.8%) in the 2014 elections.
8. Abhijit Gangopadhyay (BJP): Abhijit Gangopadhyay, a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, has been nominated by the BJP for the Tamluk seat in West Bengal. He is running against Sayan Banerjee of the CPI(M) and Debangshu Bhattacharya of the TMC. In March, Gangopadhyay became a member of the BJP after resigning from her position as a Calcutta High Court judge. TMC’s Dibyendu Adhikari defeated Tamluk-based BJP candidate Sidhartha Shankar Naskar in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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