Voting for the second last phase of the Lok Sabha elections will take place on Saturday across six states and two Union Territories. Over 11 crore voters will decide the fate of 889 candidates contesting in Phase-6 of the general elections across 58 seats.
The phase will see high-profile candidates on several seats, including BJP leaders Maneka Gandhi, Manoj Tiwari, Jammu and Kashmir People’s Democratic Party’s Mehbooba Mufti, Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar, among others.
Polling is scheduled in 58 Lok Sabha across Haryana (10), Bihar (8), Jharkhand (4), Odisha (6), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (8), Delhi (7) and Jammu and Kashmir (1).
Polling on 42 Assembly constituencies for the Odisha State Legislative Assembly will also take place simultaneously.
All seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi — North East Delhi, North West Delhi, Chandni Chowk, South Delhi, East Delhi, West Delhi, New Delhi — will go to polls in this phase.
BJP’s Manoj Tiwari, Bansuri Swaraj, Congress’s Kanhaiya Kumar and Udit Raj, and Aam Aadmi Party’s Somnath Bharti are among the prominent candidates in the fray in the national capital.
A total of 2222 flying squads, 2295 static surveillance teams, 819 video surveillance teams and 569 video viewing teams are keeping surveillance round the clock to deal with any form of inducement of voters strictly and swiftly.
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