Friday is the second-last day of campaigning for the fourth leg of the ongoing seven-phase Lok Sabha elections. In the fourth round, voting will be held on May 13, and campaigning will conclude two days before the polling day.
As many as 96 parliamentary constituencies across 10 states and Union territories will poll in the upcoming phase: Andhra Pradesh (all 25 seats), Telangana (all 17), Uttar Pradesh (13/80), Maharashtra (11/48), West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh (8/42; 8/29), Bihar (5/40), Odisha and Jharkhand (4/21; 4/14), and Jammu and Kashmir (1/5). A total of 1717 candidates will be in the fray across these states and UTs.
Also on Friday, leaders of the Congress-led opposition INDIA bloc will meet the Election Commission over the “unusual delay” taken by the poll body to release final turnout data for each of the first two rounds. The parties are also likely to demand that the turnout data for the remaining legs be released “promptly.”
Key candidates to watch in this contest will be Madhavi Latha from Telangana’s Hyderabad, Bandi Sanjay Kumar from Telangana’s Karimnagar, Giriraj Singh from Bihar’s Begusarai, Y S Sharmila from Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa, Arjun Munda from Jharkhand’s Khunti, Shatrughan Sinha from West Bengal’s Asansol, Yusuf Pathan and Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary from Baharampur in West Bengal.
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