The polls will also be held in 13 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 11 seats in Maharashtra, 8 seats each in MP and Bengal, 5 seats in Bihar, 4 seats each in Odisha and Jharkhand seats and 1 seat in J&K.
Notable candidates in this round include Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav (Kannauj), NCP’s Omar Abdullah (Srinagar), Union ministers Giriraj Singh (Begusarai) and Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur), Congress’s Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (Baharampur), Trinamool’s Mahua Moitra (Krishnanagar) and Shatrughan Sinha (Asansol), AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi (Hyderabad) and AP CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy’s MP YS Sharmila (Kadapa).
In Uttar Pradesh, the race is expected to be tight, especially in Kannauj, where Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh faces the BJP’s Subrat Pathak, while in Unnaoj (Unnao), BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj is challenged by Samajwadi Party member Annu Tandon, who was the Congress candidate in 2014 Contested with Annu Tandon but failed.
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Bihar witnessed JD(U) heavyweight Rajiv Ranan alias Lalan Singh contesting against RJD’s Kumari Anita in Munger, And in Samastipur, the children of two Bihar ministers made their debut in the LS polls.
Meanwhile, 25-year-old Shambhavi Choudhary, the youngest candidate in the country to represent Chirag Paswan-led Rashtriya Janata Dal (RV), is up against Congress MP Sunny Hazari, son of Maheshwar Hazari, a minister in the NDA government led by Nitish Kumar.
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Maharashtra’s 11 constituencies are hotly contested, with candidates such as Union Minister Raosaheb Danve (Jalna) and former BJP state minister Pankaja Munde (Beed) seeking victory. The fate of 298 candidates will be decided in this round, including actor Amol Kolhe of the NCP (SP) (Shirur, Pune district) and Sujay Vikhe Patil of the Bharatiya Janata Party (Ahmednagar).
After the completion of the fourth phase, voting will be completed in 23 states and union territories. In the last election in 2019, the BJP won 42 of these 96 seats.
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