695 candidates, voting on 49 seats…campaign ends today, what is special in the 5th phase of Lok Sabha elections?

Elections on 14 Lok Sabha seats in UP

The election campaign for 14 seats in the fifth phase of general elections in Uttar Pradesh and one seat in the assembly by-election ended at 6 pm on Saturday evening. Voting on these seats will be held on May 20. Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh Navdeep Rinwa said that voting for 14 Lok Sabha seats of the fifth phase and Lucknow East Assembly by-election is to be held on Monday, May 20. The 14 Lok Sabha seats in this phase include Mohanlalganj (reserved), Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Jalaun (reserved), Jhansi, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi (reserved), Barabanki (reserved), Faizabad, Kaiserganj, Gonda Lok Sabha. Assembly seats. Are. Of these, 10 seats are for general category and four seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste. The election campaign on all these seats stopped at 6 pm on Saturday evening.

Who are the giants in the competition?

In the fifth phase, the country's Defense Minister Rajnath-Lucknow, former Congress President Rahul Gandhi-Rae Bareli, Union Minister Smriti Irani-Amethi, Union Minister Kaushal Kishore-Mohanlalganj, Union Minister Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma-Jalaun, Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and MPs. . Lallu Singh is contesting from Faizabad Lok Sabha seat. During the fifth phase of election campaign, many senior leaders of the ruling party including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President JP Nadda, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath fiercely attacked the opposition parties.
At the same time, prominent leaders of opposition party group India Alliance including Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra attacked BJP fiercely. At the same time, Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav, a key component of the Bharat Alliance, held joint meetings with Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi in Rae Bareli and Amethi. Bahujan Samaj Party President Mayawati, who is trying her luck in the election field alone, strongly criticized the ruling BJP as well as SP and Congress.

Fate of 80 candidates decided on 5 seats of Bihar

The election campaign came to a halt on Saturday evening due to voting in five parliamentary constituencies in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections in Bihar. In this phase, voting will be held in Sitamarhi, Madhubani, Muzaffarpur, Saran and Hajipur Lok Sabha constituencies on Monday. A total of 95.11 lakh voters will decide the political future of 80 candidates. In this phase, the maximum number of 26 candidates are in Muzaffarpur Lok Sabha constituency, while the least number of 12 candidates are in Madhubani parliamentary constituency. 14 candidates each are contesting from Sitamarhi, Saran and Hajipur. 9436 polling stations have been created for voters to exercise their franchise. In this phase, there are 15 candidates from national and state level parties, while 35 independent candidates are contesting the elections. In this phase, three candidates from BJP, one from LJP and one from JDU are in the fray from NDA side, while from Grand Alliance side there are four candidates from RJD and one from Congress. BSP is contesting elections on all these seats. The main contest on all these seats is being considered between the candidates of NDA and Grand Alliance.

Uddhav-Shinde's reputation at stake!

Voting will be held on 13 seats in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. The election campaign for this ended at five in the evening. In the fifth and final phase in Maharashtra, voting will also be held for 10 seats of Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Out of these 13 seats in Maharashtra, there are BJP candidates on seven seats, while on six seats the prestige of Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is at stake. Similarly, in Mahavikas Aghadi (MVA), Congress is contesting on three seats, NCC (Sharadchandra Pawar) on two seats and Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena is contesting on the remaining nine seats. Broadly speaking, the reputation of both camps of Shiv Sena is at stake on these 13 seats of Maharashtra.