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Kanpur is scheduled to go to polls on May 13, and the locals appear to be in thrall of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath
Voting has now been completed on 283 of 543 seats, or 52 per cent, and in 20 states and UTs, the EC said
In Kashmir, the state EC counducted henna art and rangoli competitions for first time women voters, and held awareness programmes in colleges
BJP logged strong performance in these seats in last election; PM likely to cast vote at Ahmedabad
Modi's Ayodhya visit coincided with the conclusion of the campaigning for the third phase of the Lok Sabha elections, in which polling for 93 seats will be held on Tuesday
Madhepura has since sent such leaders as former Union minister Sharad Yadav, former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad and Pappu (Rajesh Ranjan) Yadav, to the Lok Sabha
It will be the first time in 25 years that a Nehru-Gandhi family member will not contest from Amethi
On Friday morning, the Congress announced that party leader Rahul Gandhi, in addition to Kerala's Wayanad, where polling concluded on April 26, will contest from Rae Bareli
For the 2024 elections, BJP has fielded Radheshyam Rathiya against Congress' Menka Devi Singh
Over the years, the Election Commission has backed arguments that candidates should be restricted to contesting from one seat
Rahul Gandhi, who was in Karnataka, said the PM cancelled his meetings after the alleged tapes of Revanna surfaced
According to an ADR analysis of the self-sworn affidavits of all 1,352 candidates who are contesting in phase three, 244 (18 per cent) candidates have declared that they face criminal cases
The BJP, which won SP's other two strongholds in bypolls in 2022, Rampur and Azamgarh, hopes to wrest Mainpuri, too
A total of 189 seats went to polls in the two phases
In 17 LS polls since 1951-52, a mere six MPs have represented Kolar in Parliament
Polling for 14 of Karnataka's 28 seats, including Hassan, which Prajwal, grandson of former prime minister H D Deve Gowda, has again contested, took place on April 26
In Delhi, a BJP delegation, led by Union minister Ashwani Vaishnaw, complained to the EC alleging that the Congress circulated a "deep fake and morphed" video of Amit Shah to derail the poll process
Besides Indore, seven more seats in Madhya Pradesh will go to the polls on May 13, concluding elections to the state's 29 seats
Congress says PM guilty of distorting remarks
Several of the parties have petitioned the Election Commission to postpone the polling in Anantnag pointing to inaccessibility