Lok Sabha Polls Phase 7: Key Candidates And Constituencies To Look For (image-twitter/@ECISVEEP)
The seventh and final phase of the Lok Sabha election will conclude on Saturday, June 7 with polling being held in 57 parliamentary constituencies across seven states and the Union territory of Chandigarh. Curtains came down on Thursday on the high-voltage campaign for the Lok Sabha election 2024. The Lok Sabha election 2024 was held over 44 days, the second longest in history after the first parliamentary elections.
The nearly two-month-long campaign witnessed parties weaving narratives over a range of issues including caste, religion, reservation and citizenship. Overall, 301 seats across the first six phases saw a decline in the turnout percentage compared to the 2019 election.
The election results will be declared on June 4.
Lok Sabha Polls Phase 7: Key Candidates And Constituencies To Look Out For
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s constituency will vote in the final phase on Saturday. From Uttar Pradesh, all 13 constituencies including Varanasi will vote in the last phase.
All 13 constituencies of Punjab will also vote on June 1. The remaining 8 seats of Bihar, six seats of Odisha and three seats of Jharkhand will poll on Saturday.
West Bengal, all 9 seats as well is scheduled to poll on June 1.
The remaining four Lok Sabha seats of Himachal Pradesh and the Union territory of Chandigarh will also be voting on June 1.
The voting will begin at 7 am. Below is the list of all the constituencies that will be voting in the final phase of the Lok Sabha election.
Key Constituencies and their Candidates
Lok Sabha Polls Phase 7: Key Candidates And Constituencies To Look Out For
Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh): Aiming for the third win, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be contesting against Congress’s Ajay Rai. Though BJP is eyeing a record margin of victory in the constituency, how much the Varanasi’s population would favor him after the recent Muslim hate speech remains a question. The growing contention against PM Modi among the youth of the constituency is also noticeable as they have decided to downgrade him as the city failed to generate ideal employment opportunities under Modi.
Mandi (Himachal Pradesh): The actress-turned-politician Kangana Ranaut will contest from the seat on the BJP ticket and will face the royal scion of the erstwhile Rampur Bushahr princely state Vikramaditya Singh. Both parties have fielded two of the richest candidates to contest the seat.
However, the BJP finds itself in a dominant position with 12 out of seventeen assembly constituencies in their kitty. Kangana is known for her ‘Modi Bhakt’ and she strongly believes that India attained independence after 2014.
Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh): Union minister Anurag Thakur is seeking his fifth term as the member of parliament from Hamirpur constituency. And the electoral stakes are very high for both the Congress as well as BJP in the constituency. Congress has fielded former Una MLA Satpal Raizada against him.
Diamond Harbour (West Bengal): Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and Trinamool Congress candidate Abhishek Banerjee is contesting the polls in Diamond Harbour. He will face a three-way contest with CPI(M)’s Pratikur Rahaman and Abhijit Das of the BJP.
Amritsar (Punjab): Amritsar will witness a four-cornered contest between Congress, AAP, Shriomani Akali Dal and BJP. The saffron party has had a checkered history with the seat. Congress has fielded the incumbent MP Gurjeet Singh Aujla while AAP has fielded Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal. Meanwhile, BJP has chosen former US ambassador Taranjith Singh Sandhu as their candidate.
Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh): Actor and politician Ravi Kishan is the BJP candidate for the seat. He fought the polls against the Samajwadi party’s candidate Kajal Nishad. In 2019, Kishan defeated the SP candidate with over 60 percent of the entire vote share.
Chandigarh (Union territory): The union territory is set for a direct battle between BJP and the INDIA bloc joint candidate fielded by Congress. Congress Manish Tewari, former union minister will face BJP’s Sanjay Tandon. The election holds great significance to Manish as it marks the homecoming he has awaited since the 2009 polls.
