Lok Sabha election Counting of votes begins today in the highest-turnout election, which has begun to decide the electoral fate of many high-profile leaders from various political parties.
Senior leaders of the Bharatiya Janata Party like Prime Minister Modiminister of interior Amit Shahand Defense Minister Rajnath Singh are running. Prominent opposition figures such as former Congress president Rahul Gandhi NCP’s Supriya Suleand Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav are also vying for seats.
Narendra Modi: In Varanasi, where he is contesting against Congress leader Ajay Rai, Prime Minister Modi wants his third term. In 2014 and 2019, Modi won by a landslide margin.
Amit Shah: The Union Home Minister, Amit Shah is at Gandhinagar fighting his second term on a trot with Sonal Patel from the congress party.
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Rahul Gandhi: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is contesting from two seats called Wayanad and Rabareli,. In Wayanad he is facing Dinesh Pratap Singh and K Surendran of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and CPI-M’s Annie Raja.) Baramati constituency will decide ‘Pawar’s’ legacy wherein NCP supremo Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule will be pitted against her cousin Ajit Pawar’s wife Supriya Sule Netra Pawar.
Shashi Tharoor: Shashi Tharoor, a three-time MP from Thiruvananthapuram in India faces a three-way fight against BJP’s Rajeev Chandrasekhar and CPM Maoist Panniyan Ravindran. BJP Tamil Nadu chief K Annamalai is aiming for the party to make inroads in the state, taking on DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar and AIADMK’s Singai Ramachandran in Coimbatore.
Supriya Sule and Sunetra Pawar: The “hot seat” of Baramati Constituency will determine the future of “Pawar’s” legacy NCP supremo Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule versus Ajit Pawar’s wife Sunetra Pawar. Exit polls predicted a tight race.
K. Annamalai: BJP Tamil Nadu president is contesting from Coimbatore where he is locking horns with DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar as well as AIADMK’s Singai Ramachandran.
Rajnath Singh: Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra and BJP candidate Sarwar Malik are competing against Defense Minister Rajnath Singh who is seeking a third term in Lucknow.
Abhishek Banerjee: CPI(M) candidate Pratikur Rahaman and the BJP Abhijit Das are TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s opponents at Diamond Harbor.
Akhilesh Yadav: On the other side, former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav wants to represent Kannauj, which has bee held by him for some years already, against sitting MP and BJP leader Subrat Pathak in this election.
Asaduddin Owaisi: Hyderabad has Asaduddin Owaisi against (actor-turned-politician) Madhavi Latha from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
