Polling is underway for 49 Lok Sabha seats across six states and two Union Territories, Ladakh and Jammu & Kashmir. The first round of voter turnout figures in phase 5 till 9 am this morning is recorded to be 10.28 percent. Some of the key candidates in the fray are Union Ministers Piyush Goyal from Northern Mumbai, Smriti Irani from Amethi, and Rajnath Singh from Lucknow. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is in the fray from Raebareli, and former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah is fighting from Baramulla, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav’s daughter Rohini Acharya is contesting from Saran, while Shiv Sena-UBT leader Arvind Sawant is contesting from Mumbai South.
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