September 16, 2024

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UP Lok Sabha Election Phase 7: Election campaign ends for 13 seats in the last phase, 144 candidates including PM Modi are in the fray

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UP Lok Sabha Election Phase 7. Six phases of Lok Sabha elections have been completed. The seventh phase of voting will be held on June 1, the campaign for which ended this evening. In the seventh phase, voting will be held on 57 seats in eight states and union territories. This includes 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 8 in Bihar, 6 in Odisha, 3 in Jharkhand, 4 in Himachal Pradesh, 9 in West Bengal and one seat in Chandigarh.

Voting will be held on June 1 in Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon, Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj of Uttar Pradesh. Two days before this, the noise of election campaign has stopped from 6 pm today. 144 candidates are in the fray for these 13 Lok Sabha seats of the seventh phase in Uttar Pradesh. Among them, 134 are male and 10 are female candidates. At the same time, 6 candidates are in the fray in Duddhi (ST) assembly by-election of Sonbhadra.

PM Modi is contesting from Varanasi for the third time

Out of the 13 Lok Sabha seats, 11 are general category seats and 2 are reserved. The 13 Lok Sabha constituencies of this phase are Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon (SC), Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Robertsganj (SC). All eyes are on the decisive battle in the stronghold of Modi-Yogi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is contesting for the third time from UP’s most important Varanasi Lok Sabha seat.

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On the other hand, BJP has given ticket to actor and current MP Ravi Kishan from the famous seat of Gorakhpur. He is pitted against SP leader Kajal Nishad. Union Minister Mahendra Nath Pandey is in the fray with the intention of scoring a hat trick from Chandauli seat. Union Minister Anupriya Patel, who has been MP from Mirzapur twice, is pitted against SP’s Ramesh Bind. The battle of Ghazipur is also interesting. SP has given ticket to Mukhtar Ansari’s elder brother Afzal Ansari from here. Afzal had won this seat on BSP ticket in the last election.

Ghosi seat has the highest number of candidates at 28

In the final phase, the maximum number of 28 candidates are in Ghosi seat while the minimum number of 7 candidates are in Varanasi and Deoria. There are 8 candidates each in Maharajganj and Bansgaon, 9 each in Kushinagar and Salempur, 10 each in Ghazipur, Mirzapur and Chandauli, 12 in Robertsganj and 13 each in Gorakhpur and Ballia seats. The fate of these candidates will be decided by 2,50,56,877 voters. Among them, 1,33,10,897 are men, 1,17,44,922 are women and 1058 are third gender.

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