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Tryst with the ballot: Curtains fall on campaign for 59 LS seats across seven states
Curtains were drawn on Friday evening for the campaign for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections to be held on Sunday, covering 59 constituencies across seven states.
New Delhi: Curtains were drawn on Friday evening for the campaign for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections to be held on Sunday, covering 59 constituencies across seven states.
At stake are 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, eight apiece in Bengal, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, seven in Delhi and four in Jharkhand with 979 candidates up before an 11-crore electorate at 1.1 lakh polling stations amid stepped-up security vigil.
In the final hours of the campaign, Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a rally in Haryana while Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed public meetings in Himachal Pradesh and Chandigarh. Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati also hit the campaign trail.
In Bihar,West Champaran, East Champaran, Sheohar, Gopalganj, Siwan, Valmikinagar, Siwan and Vaishali constituencies will keep their date with democracy.Votes would be cast under Valmikinagar and Ramnagar assembly segments in Valmikinagar Lok Sabha constituency and under Meenapur, Paru and Sahebganj assembly segments in Vaishali from 7 AM to 4 PM due to security reason.
In other assembly segments of these two Lok Sabha constituencies, polling would be held from 7 AM to 6 PM.
Prominent candidates whose fate would be decided in the 6th phase are Union minister and BJP candidate from East Champaran Radha Mohan Singh, Rashtriya Janata Dal's nominee from Siwan Hena Sahab (wife of controversial former MP and RJD strongman Mohammed Shahabuddin), BJP candidate from Sheohar Rama Devi, BJP candidate and outgoing MP from Maharajganj Janardan Singh Segriwal and BJP candidate from West Champaran Sanjay Jaiswal.