93 seats, 1300 candidates..., fate of these stalwarts including Scindia-Shah at stake in the third phase

Lok Sabha elections 2024: At least 17.24 crore people including 8.39 crore women will be eligible to vote in the third phase of lok sabha and 18.5 lakh personnel have been deployed at 1.85 lakh polling stations. Votes will be cast today (May 7) for the third phase of lok sabha elections (Lok Sabha elections 2024). In this phase, voting will be held from 7 am on 93 seats in 11 states and union territories. In the third phase, a lot will be at stake for the bjp, which won most of the seats in gujarat, Karnataka, bihar and madhya pradesh and other states in the last general elections. 1300 candidates are in the fray for the 93 lok sabha seats of this phase, including 120 women, while the number of eligible voters is more than 11 crore. The big leaders trying their luck on these seats include Union home minister amit shah (Gandhinagar), jyotiraditya scindia (Guna), Mansukh Mandaviya (Porbandar), Purushottam Rupala (Rajkot), Prahlad Joshi (Dharwad) and SP Singh Baghel (Agra). 18.5 lakh personnel deployed

At least 17.24 crore people, including 8.39 crore women, will be eligible to vote and 18.5 lakh personnel have been deployed at 1.85 lakh polling stations. Voting will be held on tuesday in the Union Territory of Dadra and nagar Haveli and daman and diu (2 seats) and 9 seats of madhya pradesh, including Betul where the election was postponed. prime minister Modi and amit shah reached gujarat on monday night. Both the leaders will cast their votes at a polling station in ahmedabad city under Gandhinagar lok sabha seat. Voting has been done on 189 out of 543 lok sabha seats in the first two phases. The fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh phases of elections will be held on May 13, May 20, May 25 and june 1 respectively. The counting of votes will be done on june 4.

The seats on which elections will be held in this phase include 25 seats in gujarat, 14 in Karnataka, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, 9 in madhya pradesh, 7 in Chhattisgarh, 5 in bihar, four each in West bengal and assam and two in Goa. prime minister Modi, who is leading the BJP's attack, has asked the congress to give in writing that it will not give the quota of Scheduled Castes, scheduled tribes and Other backward classes to Muslims.

Voting will be held on 10 seats in UP

Meanwhile, the congress and its allies have accused the bjp of tampering with the Constitution and trying to end reservation. The congress has promised to remove the 50 percent limit on reservation and has asked the bjp to clarify its stand on this issue. Voting will be held in Sambhal, Hathras, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri, firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla and Bareilly parliamentary seats of Uttar Pradesh.

100 candidates are in the fray in this phase in UP, while 1.88 crore voters will be able to vote. SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav is trying to retain her hold on the Mainpuri lok sabha seat. Akshay Yadav, son of senior SP leader Ram Gopal Yadav, is again in the fray from firozabad seat. Aditya Yadav, son of SP national general secretary Shivpal Yadav, is making his electoral debut from Badaun lok sabha seat, which was represented by his cousin dharmendra Yadav in 2014.

Shivraj-Scindia's fate at stake in MP

The political future of three big giants Shivraj Singh Chauhan, Union minister jyotiraditya scindia and Digvijay Singh will be decided during the elections for 9 seats of Madhya Pradesh. During this time, more than 1.77 crore voters will decide the fate of 127 candidates contesting for 9 seats. These nine seats in madhya pradesh include Morena, Bhind (SC), Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh and Betul (ST) constituencies. bjp veteran and former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is contesting from Vidisha seat after almost 17 years, which he has previously represented in the lok sabha several times. Shivraj is pitted against congress candidate Pratap bhanu Sharma. On the Rajgarh seat, congress veteran and former chief minister 77-year-old Digvijay Singh is pitted against two-time bjp mp Rodmal Nagar. On the Guna seat, the votes of the Yadav community can tilt the electoral balance and here Scindia is pitted against Congress's Yadavendra Singh Yadav. Chouhan seems comfortable in Vidisha, but the contest in Rajgarh could be close.