A survey for the second of the seven phases of the Lok Sabha elections is underway. Up to 88 districts of 13 States and territories of the Union will vote to decide on the fate of more than 1,200 candidates.
India is the biggest elections in the world. At the end of Friday, the polls will end in all the seats of Lok Sabha in Kerala, Rajasthan, Manipur and Tripipura. The vote is already finished in all the seats of Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Nagaland, Puducherry, Sikkim and Lakshadweep after the first phase phase of April 19.
While voters go to polling stations in the middle of increasing temperatures, take a look at the main competitions to keep an eye on the second phase.
Kerala Wayanad
The 20 districts of Lok Sabha of Kerala will be published on Friday. The state should accommodate two high electoral battles, one in Wayanad and another in Thiruvananthapuram.
Rahul Gandhi of the Congress hopes to be elected from Wayanad for the second time. He faces the competition from Annie Raja of the Communist Party of India (ICC). The Congress and the IPC are both part of the India’s opposition block, which questions Prime Minister Narendra modified by the National Democratic Alliance (NDA).
The Bharatiya Janata (BJP) party gave a ticket for its head of state, K Surendran, which made a three -way fight in Wayanad.
Gandhi, who lost the bastion of the Amethi Congress in Uttar Pradesh in 2019 at the BJP Smriti Irani, won the Wayanad Lok Sabha seat with a record margin of 4.31,770 votes.
It remains to be seen if Wayanad will prove to be the safe seat of Congress again.
Thiruvananthapuram of Kerala
The senior Congress official, Shashi Tharoor, fights against the Minister of the Union Rajeev Chandrasekhar of the BJP of Thiruvananthapuram.
While the great leader of the party seeks to win the siege for a fourth consecutive term, his rival hopes to overthrow him and emerge as a giant killer.
The ICC has aligned Pannian Ravindran from the Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha seat. The BJP emerged second from the siege in the last two Lok Sabha surveys, which increased its hopes to make breakthroughs in Kerala this time.
Karnataka mandya
Fourteen of the 28 Lok Sabha seats in the state of the South vote on Friday.
Mandya will attend a confrontation between the former chief minister of Karnataka HD Kumaraswamy of Janata Dal (Laïque) or JD (s), who is an ally of the BJP, and Venkataramane Gowda of Congress, also known as Star Chandru.
The independent candidate Sumalatha Ambareesh had won the siege in the 2019 Lok Sabha Sabha surveys, beating Nikhil Kumaraswamy of the JD (s).
Ambareesh, who joined the BJP in April this year, does not participate in this time.
Mathura de l’Uttar Pradesh
Eight of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh are in the fray in the second phase.
The Bollywood star, Hema Malini, requests a re -election of the siege Mathura Lok Sabha on a BJP ticket. She has won the Saffron party district since 2014.
While a third term online, questions arose on the absence of a malini in the constituency and only presents itself during the elections. The Congress presented Mukesh Dhangar, who is the candidate of the Mathura Indian Bloc.
Chaudhary Suresh Singh of the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is also a challenger from the high -level seat.
Kota of Rajasthan
Lok Sabha’s president OM Birla is again presenting the district of Kota Lok Sabha on a BJP ticket. However, the entry of Prahlad Gunjal into the melee made a difficult competition for Birla.
Gunjal, a strong man of the Gujjar who was twice a deputy for the BJP, joined the Congress in March. About The HindusThe battle between the two has become an “ego confrontation”.
Chhattisgarh rajnandgaon
Former Chhattisgarh CM Bhupeh Baghel is testing his fortune from the Rajnandgaon seat, where he will face the seated deputy of the BJP Santosh Pandey.
The choice of congress to align the old CM, originally from Patan, seems strategic because Rajnandgaon is a largely rural seat where the party could try to count on the old agricultural government regime of the government of Baghel to court the voters, according to a Baghel Agricultural Government Moneycontrol report.
Rajnandgaon is an attractive battle of Lok Sabha because the BJP has never lost the seat since the state formation in 2000, added the report.
Meerut de l’Uttar Pradesh
The BJP Bance on actor Arun Govil, who played Lord Ram in the popular television series Ramayan, To win the siege of Meerut Lok Sabha. The Safran party’s decision to replace the triple rajera agarwal quarter did not go well with its rank.
The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance presented a Dalit candidate, Sunita Verma, while the BSP gave a ticket to Devvrat Kumar Tyagi.
In 2019, the BJP won the seat with a narrow margin of 5,000 votes against Yaqoob Qureshi of the SP-BSP-RLD candidate (Rashtriya Lok Dal).
PURNIA DU BIHH
Punnia is one of the five districts of Lok Sabha in the Bihar’s vote in the second phase. The assigned deputy Santosh Kushwaha of Janata Dal (United), who is an ally of the BJP, is in the running for a third term of the headquarters.
He is opposed to the triple deputy Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav who is an independent candidate this time.
The Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) gave a ticket for JD (U) Rebel Bima Bharati. Yadav is likely to reduce RJD votes, which makes the party difficult to overthrow JD (U).
Other seats
Yaduveer Krishnadatta Chamaraja Wadiyar, the royal scion of Mysoreis the candidate of the BJP of the Karnataka key seat. He competes against the M-Lakshman of Congress, an engineer who has become a politician.
The BJP candidate, Kalash Choudhary, argues to keep the Barmer Lok Sabha’s seat at Rajasthan. Umeda Ram Beniwal of Congress defies him. Raviundi Singh Bhati, a rebel of Rajput who fights as an independence, made the competition in Barmer interesting.
Tejasvi Surya of the BJP is looking for a re -election from South Bengaluru in Karnataka. The congress tries to break the seat which is a bastion of the BJP by aligning Sowmya Reddy.
Navneet Kaur Rana presents herself on a bjp post from Maharashtra Amravati. She faces Balwant Basawant Wankhede and Sanjay of the BSP Congress.
With agency entries
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