Phase 5 Voting In 49 Lok Sabha Seats Records 10.3% Turnout Till 9 am

1. Voting is on in 5 seats in Bihar, Jharkhand (3), Maharashtra (13), Odisha (5), UP (14), West Bengal (7) and two Union Territories – Jammu and Kashmir (1) and Ladakh (1). With this section, election will probably be over in Maharashtra and Ladakh. A mean turnout of 10.3 per cent has been recorded until 9 am.  

2. Voting is being held on 35 seats of the Odisha Meeting and 21 Lok Sabha seats as a part of the simultaneous polling within the state.

3. Whereas this section has the least variety of seats, most are high-profile constituencies from the place Union Ministers and leaders of nationwide and regional events are contesting. In 2019, the BJP received 32 of those 49 seats.

4. The massive struggle is anticipated within the seven seats of Bengal and the 13 seats of Maharashtra. Ten of the 13 seats are within the Shiv Sena stronghold and the conflict will probably be between two factions of the get together, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and his predecessor Uddhav Thackeray.

5. In Bengal, a troublesome struggle is on the playing cards on a number of seats, with Congress and CPM muscling into what was anticipated to be a straight struggle between the BJP and the ruling Trinamool Congress.

6. In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP had received 13 of the 14 seats going to polls at present — the exception being Raebareli, received by Sonia Gandhi.

7. The important thing candidates embody Union Ministers Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Bharati Pawar (Dindori), Smriti Irani (Amethi),  Rajnath Singh (Lucknow). Amongst key allies are Lok Janshakti Occasion-Ram Vilas chief Chirag Paswan (Hajipur), Shrikant Shinde, son of Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde (Kalyan).

8. From the Opposition, Congress’s Rahul Gandhi is defending his mom Sonia Gandhi’s bastion Raebareli after she moved onto Rajya Sabha; RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya is contesting in opposition to BJP’s former Union Minister Rajiv Pratap Rudy from Saran; Shiv Sena-UBT chief and former Union Minister Arvind Sawant is contesting from Mumbai South.

9. In Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla, former Chief Minister and Nationwide Convention chief Omar Abdullah faces the PDP’s Faiyaz A Mir, Folks’s Convention chief Sajad Ghani Lone, and Awami Ittehad Occasion chief, the jailed Engineer Rashid.

10. The following and penultimate section, comprising 58 seats, will probably be held on Could 25. Nationwide capital Delhi and neighbouring Haryana will take part for a single-phase polling. The counting of votes will probably be held on June 4. 

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