Voting is on for 89 seats in 13 states in Phase 2, with many seats having interesting contests.

In the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections, voting will be held on April 26. Total seats are 89 in Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra. Manipur, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. In the process, the honors of several key leaders, including three ministers in Narendra Modi’s cabinet, two former chief ministers and two former chief ministers’ sons, are at stake.

New Delhi: In the second phase of the Lok Sabha elections Elections will be held on April 26 for all 89 seats in Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Rajasthan, Tripura. Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. A total of 1,206 candidates competed for these seats, at this stage the honors of several prominent leaders. They include three Union ministers of Narendra Modi’s cabinet, two former chief ministers and the sons of two former chief ministers of Rajasthan. At stake

In the last Lok Sabha elections The Bharatiya Janata Party won 51 out of 89 seats this term. The NDA alliance has 8 seats on their account. Twenty-one Congress MPs were successful in this election. The remaining seats went to CPM, BSP, etc. This number of Congress has increased because of Kerala. In the state, Congress and its allies won 19 out of 20 seats.

There is some interesting competition for these seats.

Kerala

Wayanad

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi contested from the Wayanad seat. Lok Sabha for the second time In the last Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi won here with 431,770 votes. However, he may face a tough fight this time from the Communist Party of India (CPI-M), which is part of the “India” opposition alliance. “The CPI(M) has fielded its woman candidate Annie Raja here, while BSP’s PR Krishnan Kutty and BJP’s K Surendran are contesting the elections. Nine applicants in total Including five independent candidates Was in the battle at Wayanad.

Thiruvananthapuram

Rajiv Chandrasekhar The Union minister is contesting the elections from here on a BJP ticket, while Congress candidate and former Union minister Shashi Tharoor is ahead of him. The CPI(M) has given a ticket to Panin Ravindran here, who supports Rajendran from the BSP. is also in the fight. A total of 12 candidates including seven independents are trying their luck from here.

Attingal

Many people fixed their eyes on this seat. Union Minister of State V Muralidharan’s reputation is at stake. While the Congress fielded Adwar Prakash as its candidate, V Joy from the Communist Party of India supported it. (Marxist) and Sarbhi S supporters from BSP are trying their luck.

Karnataka

Mandia

Former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy’s reputation is at stake from this seat. Kumaraswamy’s party Janata Dal (Secular) has allied with the BJP in the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress has fielded Venkat Raman Gowda against him. A total of 14 candidates, including seven independents, are in the fray for this seat.

Mysore

in Mysore seat Karnataka’s Lok Sabha, the BJP has expressed confidence in former Yadvir Krishna Dutt member Chamraj Wadiyar, the Congress has fielded state spokesperson M Laxman in front of them, 18 candidates including 8 independent candidates are present. In the fight for this seat

South Bengaluru

Young BJP MP Tejaswi Surya is contesting from Bengaluru South Lok Sabha seat for the second time. This seat is considered a stronghold of the BJP. Late senior leader Anand Kumar won elections from here several times. The Congress has given ticket to Soumya Reddy here. A total of 22 candidates, including 12 independents, are in the fray for this seat.

Jammu

Jammu has a total of 17.81 lakh voters. Here, the BJP has expressed confidence in sitting MP. BJP’s Jugal Kishore Sharma as senior Congress leader and former minister Raman Bhalla stands in front of him. Sharma won here in 2019 with around 3.02 lakh votes. Although Jugal Kishore Sharma is considered a seasoned political leader, Raman Bhalla Also known as a down-to-earth leader, BSP’s Charanjit Chargotra is also in the fray. But it is believed that it is a real competition between the Congress and the BJP.

Maharashtra

Amaravati

Maharashtra’s Amravati Lok Sabha seat is making headlines. Grandson of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar and Anantaraj Ambedkar, leaders of the Republican Sena The seat is being contested. It has the support of All India Party chief Majlis Ittehad Muslimeen (AIMIM) and Member of Parliament Asaduddin Owaisi in the Amravati seat. The Congress has extradited Ambedkarite social activist Balwant Wankhede. Fight with MPs Navneet Kaur Rana She recently joined the BJP.

Most women candidates have won from this seat. Usha Chaudhary in 1980, Pratibha Patil in 1991 and Navneet Rana in 2019 went to Parliament from here.

Chhattisgarh

Rajanandakhaon

The Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat is one of the high-profile seats of the second phase. Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel is contesting the elections from here. The BJP has given Santhosh Pandey a ticket to fight against Bagheil, a Durg resident. The BSP has fielded Devlal Sinha as its candidate here.

seasoning

This time, 15 candidates are in the fray for the Mahasmand Lok Sabha seat. The Congress has given the ticket to former Home Minister Tamardhoj Sahu, while the BJP has fielded Roop Kumari Chaudhary from Mahasmand. If we look at the profiles of both the candidates. Two Roop Kumari Choudhary won the 2013 Assembly elections from Basna. There in the 2023 Assembly elections, the Congress candidate from Durg, Tamardhawaj, lost.

Conqueror

A total of nine candidates are in the fray from Kankir but the real contest here is believed to be between the BJP and the Congress. Bhoj Raj Nag is a former MLA from the Bhanupratappur Assembly. who was given a ticket by the BJP for the first time in the Lok Sabha elections, Viresh Thakur from the Congress. Nominated once again as the Lok Sabha candidate, Viresh Thakur had earlier lost the 2019 Lok Sabha elections by a margin of 5,000 votes.

Rajasthan

Jodhpur

Union Minister Gajinder Singh Shekhawat is contesting from Jodhpur seat. Lok Sabha for the third time, BSP’s Manju Meghwal and Congress’ Karan Singh Uchiarra are challenging Shekhawat. A total of 15 candidates, including six independents, are in the fray for this seat.

quota

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla is contesting from this seat for the third time. He had already won in 2014 and 2019. The Congress had given a ticket to Prahlad Ganjal to oppose Om Birla Dhan. Raj Yadav of the BSP was also trying his luck.

Chalawar–Baran

Jhalwar—Baran seat Rajasthan is the stronghold of former chief minister Vasundhara Raje. Dushant Singh, son of Vasundhara Raje, has been the MP from here since 2009. Dushant Singh is contesting the election for the fourth time. The Congress fielded Urmila Jain and the BSP fielded Chandra Singh Karar against her. Seven applicants in total including three independent candidates He is contesting the election here.

lots

Vaibhav Gehlot, son of former chief minister Ashok Gehlot, is contesting from this seat on a BJP parliamentary ticket. The contest is between Lambram and Vaibhav. Here, the Congress suffered a crushing defeat in the last Lok Sabha elections. This is mainly due to the large financial community. There are more than one hundred thousand voters from the financial community. They are considered traditional voters of the BJP.

Chittaurgarh

Chittorgarh has emerged as a hot seat, in which case state BJP president Chandra Prakash Joshi is in the fray once again. While former ministers Anjana Udayalal of the Congress and Meghwal Radheshyam of the Bahujan Samaj Party have been given tickets.

Bhilwara

Senior Congress leader and former Speaker Dr CP Joshi Bhilwara is in the fray for the Lok Sabha seat. Dr. Joshi’s entry into the fray has raised the challenge of Damodar Agarwal from the BJP. Earlier, the Congress had given a ticket to Damodar Gurjar from the Gujjar community, later fielding former Congress president Dr. CP Joshi as its candidate.

Uttar Pradesh

Gotama Buddha Nakhon

The BJP has fielded Dr. Mahesh Sharma, a two-term MP from Gautam Buddha Nagar (Noida) Lok Sabha seat. The SP has fielded Mahendra Nagar against him, while the BSP has made the contest interesting by fielding Rajendra Solanki, all three candidates. People are from different castes and are trying to use caste equations. SP has tried to create equations. Gujjar-Muslim-Yadav here, while the BSP has made the Thakur-Dalit equation the basis of victory. Since the seat has a large number of Thakur voters, the BJP is considered the winner. Traditional voters, however, with the BSP entering the fray Mahesh Sharma’s path to victory appears to be a bit difficult.

Mathura

Film actor Mao Malinei has won two elections in a row from this high seat. This time, the BJP is fielding him once again. The Congress has given a ticket to Mukesh Dhangar, the Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded Suresh Singh, a former IRS candidate from the Jat community, as its candidate as the seat is considered a Jat majority seat if the BSP can garner Jat-Dalit votes here. Unintended consequences may occur.

Meerut

Meerut Lok Sabha seat became special this time as the BJP fielded ‘Ramayan’ serial actor Arun Kowal as MP Rajendra Agarwal three times. SP gave Su a chance. Nita Verma replaces announced candidate Atul Pradhan, BSP’s Devvarat Tyagi is trying his luck here.

In 2019, the BJP won the Meerut seat by a narrow margin when BSP’s Yakub Qureshi fought a tough fight against Rajinder Agarwal. This time, the Meerut election is likely to be a BJP versus BSP affair. In such a case, Sunita Varma will have to fight a tight fight. difficult

spring

Purnia

The Purnea seat has been in the headlines because of Pappu Yadav who has merged his Jan Adhikar party with the Congress. and filed his nomination as an independent candidate from Purnea, he claimed that the hands of the Congress were with him. But the Congress is in alliance with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) here and the RJD has fielded Aye Bima Bharti from the Janata Dal United (JDU). Bima is the wife of Udhesh Mandal, who is in an Indian jail.

According to the stories of people in the area The real contest is between Pappu Yadav and Santosh Kumar, the candidate from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Santosh Kumar won the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Purnia. Pappu Yadav also won the elections from Purnia three times in 1991, 1996 and 1999 RJD gave him a ticket from Madhepura, in 2004 and 2014 he won there too.

This is Bima Bharti’s first Lok Sabha election. Before that she had been MLA five times from Rupoli Assembly seat in Purnia district and Lok Sabha constituency. She has won consecutively in the last four Assembly elections. He won the 2020 assembly elections on a JDU ticket.

treasure chest

The Kishanganj Lok Sabha seat is considered a Muslim majority seat. The Congress won this seat in the last three Lok Sabha elections. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the Congress managed to win a single seat in Bihar. This is a contest between the Congress, JDU and Asaduddin Owaisi’s party AIMIM.

The Congress has given tickets to incumbent MP Muhammad Javed, JDU to Mujahid Alam and AIMIM to Akhtar Ul Ayman. Nitish Kumar’s JDU is yet to win any Lok Sabha elections here.

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