Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Phase 2: India gets ready to vote tomorrow

Among the 1206 candidates are 61 candidates contesting for 5 Lok Sabha seats of Assam, 9 candidates contesting for the Tripura East seat and 4 candidates contesting for the Outer

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The fate of 1206 candidates from 13 States and Union Territories will be decided tomorrow as the nation gets ready to vote tomorrow, April 26, in the second phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024. The voting will be held for 89 seats.

Among the 1206 candidates are 61 candidates contesting for 5 Lok Sabha seats of Assam, 9 candidates contesting for the Tripura East seat and 4 candidates contesting for the Outer Manipur seat.

The 13 states and union territories that will go to polls tomorrow include 20 seats in Kerala, 14 in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, eight each in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, seven in Madhya Pradesh, five each in Assam and Bihar, three in West Bengal and Chhattisgarh and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur and Tripura.

As per the Election Commission of India, voting will commence at 7 AM and conclude at 5 PM with an extra hour being provided as a buffer period for voters who are already present in the voting line.

Some of the popular faces whose fate will be sealed tomorrow include Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi contesting from Kerala’s Wayanad and Shashi Tharoor contesting from Kerala’s Thiruvananthapuram, BJP minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar who is contesting against Tharoor from the Thiruvananthapuram seat, popular actor who played the role of Lord Ram in the TV series Ramayan, Arun Govil contesting from Meerut as a BJP candidate, veteran actress and 2-time BJP MP from Mathura, Hema Malini and Lok Sabha Speaker and 2-time MP from Kota, Om Birla.
Also in the fray are Tejasvi Surya, the sitting MP for Bangalore South and the national president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM). He will face Congress’ Sowmya Reddy.

Former chief minister of Chhattisgarh and Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel is contesting from Rajnandgaon, a BJP stronghold for over 30 years. Baghel is pitted against BJP’s Santosh Pandey, who won the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The seat was earlier held by Abhishek Singh, son of former Chief Minister Raman Singh, also from the BJP.

All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary K C Venugopal is contesting from the Alappuzha seat in Kerala. Venugopal has not lost any major election in his career. He won the Alappuzha Assembly seat thrice in a row in 1996, 2001, and 2006 and was elected to the Lok Sabha from Alappuzha in 2009 and 2014.
Actor-turned-politician Suresh Gopi is also in the fray from Thrissur against K Muraleedharan of Congress and VS Sunil Kumar of CPI(M). Sukanta Majumdar, incumbent BJP MP from Balurghat in West Bengal is seeking re-election.

The first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on April 19 covered 102 seats spread across 21 states and union territories recording a voter turnout of around 62%.

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