Achi news desk-
First phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Voting on April 19
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Campaigning for the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections ended at 5 pm on Wednesday. Now the candidates will campaign door to door for the next 36 hours. At this stage, voting will take place on 102 Lok Sabha seats in 21 states and union territories on Friday, April 19. The fate of 1,625 candidates, including eight Union ministers, two former Knesset members and one former governor, will be decided on these seats. Meanwhile, the notification for the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections will be released today, i.e. on April 18. At this point, voting will take place on 96 seats in 10 countries on May 13. In the fourth phase, voting will also take place on 13 seats in UP and one seat in Jammu and Kashmir.
Voting will take place on Friday from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. In the first phase, all 39 of Tamil Nadu, 12 of Rajasthan, 8 of Uttar Pradesh, all five of Uttarakhand, two of Arunachal Pradesh, four of Bihar, one of Chhattisgarh, four of Assam, 6 of Madhya Pradesh , five of Maharashtra, voting in Manipur will be held in two seats each in Meghalaya, one each in Mizoram, Tripura and three seats in West Bengal. Voting will also be held for one seat each in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep and Puducherry.
The fate of Gadkari, Sonowal, Balyan will be decided
- Union Road and Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari is trying to score a hat-trick from the Nagpur seat.
- Union minister Kiran Raiju is trying to win from Arunachal West for the fourth time.
- Shipping Minister Sarbananda Sonowal from Dibugarh, Sanjeev Balian from Muzaffarnagar, Jitendra Singh from Udhampur, Bhupendra Yadav from Alwar, Arjun Ram from Jawal from Bikaner and L. Murugan from Nilgiris are in the fray.