2024 Lok Sabha elections, covering 58 seats spread over six states and the union territories of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir will be held on Saturday. Among the prominent candidates in the fray are former chief ministers Mehbooba Mufti (Jammu and Kashmir) and Manohar Lal Khattar (Haryana), union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan, Deepender Hooda, Naveen Jindal, Bansuri Swaraj, Manoj Tiwari, Kanhaiya Kumar, Bhartruhari Mahtab and JP Aggarwal
States where polling will be held in the sixth phase are Bihar (8 seats), Haryana (10), Jharkhand (4), Odisha (6), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (8), Delhi (7). Polling will also be held in Anantnag-Rajouri seat of J&K where Mufti is the PDP candidate.
Unlike in 2014 and 2019, when BJP had won all seven seats in Delhi, this time the battle is not easy for the party as AAP and Congress have joined hands with the former contesting four seats and the latter three.
Seats in West Bihar will go to polls on Saturday. Former Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh is trying to retain his seat Purvi Champaran while sitting Paschim Champaran MP Sanjay Jaiswal is in the fray again. Siwan, Sheohar, Vaishali, Gopalganj, and Maharajganj are the other seats where people will exercise their franchise.