Today, in Phase Six of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, six states and two union territories, namely Haryana (10), Bihar (8), Jharkhand (4), Odisha (6), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (8), Delhi (7), and Jammu and Kashmir (1) will vote to elect people’s representatives on a total 58 seats.
The most interesting poll battle today will be fought in the national capital. Polling in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi — North East Delhi, North West Delhi, Chandni Chowk, South Delhi, East Delhi, West Delhi, and New Delhi will be held today. All eyes are on the duel between the BJP’s Manoj Tiwari and the Congress’ Kanhaiya Kumar.
Popular Bhojpuri singer and film actor Manoj Tiwari is the only candidate repeated in Delhi by the BJP to contest in the present Lok Sabha elections. The BJP swept all seven seats in the previous general elections. The battle in North-East Delhi became interesting when the former JNU Students’ Union President and brilliant orator Kanhaiya Kumar was fielded by the INDIA bloc. Kanhaiya, a youth leader, has been accused of shouting anti-India slogans by the BJP, which he vehemently denies. North East Delhi constituency voters are mainly migrant workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.
There are several important contests in today’s poll battle. Prominent among them is Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of late Sushma Swaraj, former J&K Chief Minister and estranged political partner of the BJP, Mehbooba Mufti and Manoharlal Khattar, who stepped down recently from the Haryana Chief Ministership. At Tamluk in Bengal, a very controversial former judge of Calcutta High Court, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, is fighting on a BJP ticket against TMC’s Debangshu Bhattacharya.
The seventh and last phase will be held on 1st June 2024, marking the end of the world’s biggest electoral extravaganza. On June 4, India will come to know if Modi will win a historic third term for the BJP or if the opposition will succeed in attracting voters’ interest, which has eluded them for so long.
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