3rd Phase Polling In India

By: Arun77

Hyderabad : India | 7 months ago

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Nine States and two Union Territories were set on Wednesday for voting in 107 constituencies in the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections. The exercise comes on a third consecutive Thursday.

In Sikkim, voters will elect their MLAs too: the election for the 32-member State Assembly, including one reserved for the “Sangha” (Buddhist monk bodies), is being held along with the election for the lone Lok Sabha seat.

There are 1,567 contestants including 101 women in this round. Prominent among them are Congress president Sonia GandhiSonia Gandhi (contesting from Rae Bareli), the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate L.K. Advani (Gandhinagar), the former Prime Minister, H.D. Deve Gowda (Hassan), BJP leader Jaswant SinghJaswant Singh (Darjeeling), Janata Dal (U) president Sharad Yadav (Madhepura), CPI leader Gurudas DasguptaGurudas Dasgupta (Ghatal) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Basudeb Acharya (Purulia).

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