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Lok Sabha elections 2019: Campaigning ends for third phase polls
Other key constituencies voting on Tuesday are Mainpuri in UP, where Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting and Gulbarga in Karnataka where Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge is pitted against the BJP’s Umesh Jadhav.
Campaigning for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections came to an end on Sunday in 116 constituencies spread over 15 states and Union Territories, which go to polls on Tuesday.
Polling will be held in all seats in Gujarat (26), Kerala (20), Goa (2), Dadra and Nagar Haveli (1) and Daman and Diu (1). Four seats in Assam, five in Bihar, seven in Chhattisgarh, one in Jammu and Kashmir (Anantnag), 14 in Karnataka, 14 in Maharashtra, six in Odisha, 10 in Uttar Pradesh, and five in West Bengal too will vote on Tuesday. Polling in Tripura East, which was slated in the second phase, was deferred to the third phase on security concerns. The third phase has the most number of constituencies voting in the seven-phase long 2019 Lok Sabha election.
The chiefs of the both the BJP and the Congress are in fray in the third phase — BJP president Amit Shah is making his Lok Sabha election debut from Gandhinagar, while Congress president Rahul Gandhi is contesting from Wayanad, one of the two constituencies he has filed his nomination from. Gandhi is also contesting from the family bastion of Amethi.
Other key constituencies voting on Tuesday are Mainpuri in UP, where Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav is contesting and Gulbarga in Karnataka where Congress’s Mallikarjun Kharge is pitted against the BJP’s Umesh Jadhav.
The third phase saw the Election Commission barring Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan for 72 hours for making an indecent remark on BJP’s Jaya Prada, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath (72 hours), BSP supremo Mayawati (48 hours), and BJP’s Maneka Gandhi (48 hours), for making “provocative” speeches.
On the last day of campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed a rally in Gujarat’s Patan, where he accused the then UPA government of inaction after the 26/11 attacks. BJP president Amit Shah held a roadshow in Sanand, Gandhinagar. West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee held a rally in Nadia district’s Gayeshpur, where she accused the Centre of “trying to run a parallel government in the state by sending in “officers from Delhi”.
