Lok Sabha elections 2024: Right this moment is the primary day of the election
New Delhi:
The primary section of the Lok Sabha elections right now has many swing seats that may make or break the possibilities of events. Individuals will vote to elect MPs in 102 seats. The BJP is in search of a 3rd workforce, whereas INDIA bloc is hoping for a win by some means.
This is your 10-point cheatsheet to this large story:
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The Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat will see a high-stakes battle, with Tamil Nadu BJP chief Okay Annamalai dealing with DMK chief Ganapathy P Rajkumar and AIADMK’s Singai Ramachandran. The candidature of its Tamil Nadu state president exhibits the BJP is urgent arduous to extend its presence in south India.
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Union Minister and BJP chief Nitin Gadkari is eyeing a 3rd straight victory from Maharashtra’s Nagpur seat. The seat will see a contest between Mr Gadkari and Congress candidate Vikas Thakre, who’s at current the Nagpur West MLA.
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Jitin Prasada, who give up Congress in 2021, is among the many key candidates of the BJP within the first section. He changed two-time MP from Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit, Varun Gandhi. The BJP received a stable majority in UP within the earlier two Lok Sabha elections. The Samajwadi Get together fielded Bhagwant Saran Gangwar, and the Bahujan Samaj Get together (BSP) fielded Anees Ahmes Khan towards Mr Prasada.
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Former Bihar Chief Minister Jitan Ram Manjhi is contesting from Gaya. This election holds essential political significance for the 79-year-old Manjhi. Gaya has the best variety of candidates – 14 in whole – contesting the elections. The BJP has left the Gaya (reserved) seat for its ally, the Hindustani Awam Morcha-Secular (HAM-S).
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The BJP is leaving no stone unturned to grab the one seat gained by the Congress within the 2019 elections, Chhindwara in Madhya Pradesh. Nakul Nath, son of former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, is preventing once more from the Chhindwara seat towards BJP candidate Vivek Bunty Sahu, who had misplaced to Kamal Nath within the final two meeting polls.
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The Jorhat seat in Assam will determine if the Congress’s deputy chief in Lok Sabha, Gaurav Gogoi, could make it to the elected home this time too. The Constituency has been seen as a stronghold of the BJP. Mr Gogoi’s resolution to contest the elections from Jorhat, as a substitute of his household’s stronghold Kaziranga (erstwhile Kaliabor) — from the place he’s the MP — has made the competition fascinating.
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The meeting elections in Arunachal Pradesh (60 seats) and Sikkim (32 seats) will even be held right now. Voting will start at 7 am and finish at 6 pm. The Election Fee has deployed over 18 lakh polling personnel throughout 1.87 lakh polling stations; over 16.63 crore persons are eligible to vote.
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Polling shall be held in all seats of Tamil Nadu (39), Uttarakhand (5), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1) and Lakshadweep (1).
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Moreover, there shall be voting in 12 seats in Rajasthan, 8 in Uttar Pradesh, 6 in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats every in Assam and Maharashtra, 4 in Bihar, 3 in West Bengal, 2 seats in Manipur, and one seat every in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chhattisgarh.
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In 2019, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) gained 45 of those 102 seats and the NDA 41. Six of those seats have been redrawn as a part of the delimitation train.
