Voting In 21 States Today As India’s National Election Begins: 10 Points

1. The primary section of polls is being held on all seats of Tamil Nadu (39), Rajasthan (12), Uttar Pradesh (8), Madhya Pradesh (6), Uttarakhand (5), Arunachal Pradesh (2), Meghalaya (2), Andaman and Nicobar Islands (1), Mizoram (1), Nagaland (1), Puducherry (1), Sikkim (1) and Lakshadweep (1). In addition to, there shall be 5 seats every in Assam and Maharashtra, 4 in Bihar, three in West Bengal, two in Manipur, and one every in Tripura, Jammu and Kashmir, and Chhattisgarh.

2. 4 states — Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Sikkim and Arunachal Pradesh — may even decide new assemblies alongside this Lok Sabha election. Of those, Arunachal Pradesh (60 seats) and Sikkim (32) are first down in the present day.

3. Backed by a high-octane marketing campaign led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Amit Shah, the BJP is aiming to win 370 of 543 Lok Sabha seats – a steep rise from its rating of 2019. The Prime Minister has set the NDA a goal of 400. Within the final election, the NDA gained 353 seats — up by 5 per cent from 2014. The BJP gained 303 seats.

4. The Opposition bloc INDIA, which largely made headlines over its disarray within the run-up to the polls — particularly with the defection of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar — has been standing collectively following the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal within the liquor coverage case. Even so, in a number of pockets, the events are up in opposition to one another, flouting the rule of one-on-one contests they assured would push the BJP out.

5. The large violators are Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, which has entered its candidates in opposition to the Congress not simply in Bengal however a couple of northeastern states as properly. The opposite is Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Occasion, which has finished the identical in Punjab and elsewhere, regardless of having a seat sharing settlement with the Congress in Delhi.

6. The BJP is hoping to win 22 of the 25 seats within the northeast – an space it now dominates — sweep the large swathe of the Hindi heartland, Jammu within the north and Gujarat within the west. In Bengal, it’s hoping to flourish at the price of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and make additional inroads in Odisha, although the proposed alliance with Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal fell by way of.  

7. In south — as soon as a fortress in opposition to all northern events besides the Congress — the BJP is anticipating to win large in Karnataka, which voted in a Congress authorities final 12 months. With outreaches spearheaded by PM Modi, additionally it is hoping to make a dent within the Dravidian politics of Tamil Nadu. As insurance coverage, it’s piggybacking a handful of smaller events, together with PMK of S Ramadoss.  

8. The Congress, pushed out of a lot of north India, insists it’s on the cusp of a comeback. Senior chief KC Venugopal has stated the get together will submit improved efficiency in most northern states – together with the BJP bastions of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. With meeting ballot victories in Telangana and Karnataka, and the alliance with DMK in Tamil Nadu, it tasks big confidence concerning the leads to the south.

9. Eight Union ministers, two former chief ministers, one former governor and numerous key leaders are within the fray in the present day, making for scintillating contests in additional than 20 seats. Amongst them are Union ministers Nitin Gadkari, Jitendra Singh, Kiren Rijiju, Arjun Ram Meghwal, Sanjiv Balyan, former Telangana governor Tamilisai Soundararajan, Congress’s Deputy Chief within the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi and former Chief Minister of Assam Sarbananda Sonowal.  

10. In 2019, the UPA (United Progressive Alliance) gained 45 of those 102 seats and the NDA 41. Six of the seats have been redrawn as a part of delimitation. The counting of votes shall be held on June 4. 

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