Key candidates in fray in Lok Sabha polls Phase 2

From Congress chief Rahul Gandhi in Wayanad, Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram to Hema Malini in Mathura and Arun Govil in Meerut, the fates of a number of distinguished personalities will probably be locked by the voters in the second section of Lok Sabha elections on Friday.

The second section has 88 Lok Sabha constituencies together with all 20 seats in Kerala, 14 in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, eight in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, 5 every in Assam and Bihar, six in Madhya Pradesh, three every in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal and one every in Tripura, Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir.

Rahul Gandhi

Wayanad Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala is ready to witness a tricky contest between INDIA bloc allies. The Congress and the Communist Party of India (CPI), that are a part of the Opposition’s INDIA bloc at the moment are rivals in Kerala for the important thing Wayanad seat. CPI has fielded Annie Raja from the seat. She is the spouse of CPI basic secretary D Raja and holds the publish of basic secretary in the social gathering’s National Federation of Indian Women. The BJP has fielded Ok Surendran as a National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate in its try to put up a tricky struggle for the Gandhi household scion in Wayanad. Ok Surendran is a distinguished chief from north Kerala who turned the BJP state president in 2020.

Arun Govil

Actor Arun Govil, famend for the portrayal of Lord Ram in the epic Ramayana on nationwide tv, has been contesting from Meerut on BJP’s ticket.He is up in opposition to Samajwadi Party’s Sunita Verma and Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Devvrat Kumar Tyagi.

Hema Malini

Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini is once more in the fray from Mathura. She is a two-time MP from the seat and can sit up for rating a hattrick.She is up for a two-pronged contest with Congress social gathering’s Mukesh Dhangar and Bahujan Samaj Party’s Suresh Singh contesting from Mathura.

Shashi Tharoor

Former UN diplomat and Congress chief will probably be looking for a fourth straight time period from Thiruvananthapuram constituency, as he’s up in opposition to a two-front contest in opposition to Union Minister of State, Rajeev Chandrashekhar and Communist Party of India (Marxist) chief Panniyan Ravindran. Tharoor, who has held the seat since 2009, is dealing with a problem because the BJP has named a powerful face in opposition to him. Chandrashekhar has served because the MoS for Electronics, Entrepreneurship and Information Technology.

Tejasvi Surya

BJP chief Tejasvi Surya will purpose to win the seat of Bangalore South for the second time. Notably, the seat has been a bastion for the BJP, because the social gathering has not been defeated from right here since 1991.The highlight is on the extreme competitors between Tejasvi Surya and INC’s Soumya Reddy, who’s vying to say the parliamentary seat for Congress.

Bhupesh Baghel

The former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, whose authorities in the state was voted out final 12 months, will sit up for make a political comeback by successful the seat of Rajnandgaon. The seat has been a BJP bastion for over three many years. Baghel confronted the problem in opposition to sitting BJP MP Santosh Pandey.

Om Birla

Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla, who’s a two-time BJP MP from Kota, Rajasthan will probably be trying to rating a hattrick from the seat tomorrow. He is up in opposition to Congress’ Prahlad Gunjal, who’s a former BJP chief.

Voting will start at 7 am tomorrow and can conclude at 6 pm. The Lok Sabha election is being held in seven phases until June 1 and votes will probably be counted June 4. The second section of polling was to be held on 89 seats however voting in Betul, Madhya Pradesh has been deferred to May 7 as a result of dying of the BSP candidate.

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