Lok Sabha Election 2024 Live Phase 6: Voting on 58 seats begins at 7 am, two ex-CMs in the fray

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sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 today, May 25. All 10 seats of Haryana and seven seats of Delhi are polling in this round of voting.The voting, which begins at 7 am, is being held in Bihar (8 seats), Haryana (all 10 seats), Jammu and Kashmir (one seat), Jharkhand (4 seats), Delhi (all 7 seats), Odisha (6 seats), Uttar Pradesh (14 seats), West Bengal (8 seats).

The 42 assembly constituencies in Odisha will also go to polls along with the Lok Sabha elections.About 11.13 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase of polling being held at 1.14 lakh polling stations across 58 seats, the Election Commission of India said. This includes 5.84 crore men, 5.29 crore women and 5120 third gender electors.

There are over 8.93 lakh registered 85+ years old, 23,659 voters above 100 years and 9.58 lakh PwD voters for Phase 6 who have been provided the option to vote from the comfort of their homes, the commission said.As many as 11.4 lakh polling officials have been deployed for poll duty, the poll panel said. Overall, 889 candidates are in the fray in this phase, Election Commission of India said.The key candidates in the fray today include Bhartiya Janata Party leaders (BJP) leaders Dharmendra Pradhan (Sambalpur), Manoj Tiwari (North East Delhi), Maneka Gandhi (Sultanpur), Abhijit Gangopadhyay (Tamluk), Naveen Jindal (Kurukshetra) and Manohar Lal Khattar (Karnal), to name a few.

The Congress party's prominent candidates in the fray today are Kanhaiya Kumar (North East Delhi) and Raj Babbar (Gurgaon). PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti is contesting from Anantnag-Rajouri seat in Jammu and Kashmir.In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, among the 58 seats polling today in the sixth phase, the BJP alone had won 40 .