Lok Sabha election 2024 Phase 5: Full list of 49 constituencies; key candidates here

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1. Rahul Gandhi (Rae Bareli, UP): Rahul Gandhi is Congress candidate from Rae Bareli seat, the Nehru-Gandhi family stronghold vacated by his mother, Sonia Gandhi. Rahul has already contested the Lok Sabha elections from Kerala's Wayanad seat that he won in 2019.

Wayanad went to polls in second phase on April 26. BJP had fielded UP minister Dinesh Pratap Singh as its candidate from Raebareli. 2. Smriti Irani (Amethi, UP): Amethi has been a stronghold of the Congress party for decades, until BJP leader Smriti Irani won the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, ending the Gandhi family's stint there.

This year, Smriti Irani is pitted against Congress candidate Kishori Lal Sharma, a longtime loyalist of the Gandhi family. This is Irani's third election from Amethi after losing in 2014 to Rahul Gandhi by 1 lakh votes and then winning in 2019 by huge margin of around 55,000 votes. Rahul was was a three-time MP Amethi i.e.

2004 to 2019. 3. Rajnath Singh (Lucknow, UP): Rajnath Singh will face Samajwadi Party candidate Ravidas Mehrotra from this seat.

In 2019, Singh had defeated SP's Poonam Shatrughan Sinha with over 6.3 lakh votes whereas in 2014, he had defeated Congress candidate Rita Bahuguna Joshi by a margin of 2,72,749 votes. 4. Karan Bhushan Singh (Kaiserganj, UP): Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh's son is fielded from Kaiserganj.

BJP had replaced Brij Bhushan who is facing criminal charges of sexually harassing women wrestlers while he was the chief of the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI). Presently, Karan is the President of the Uttar Pradesh Wrestling Association and the Chairman of a Cooperative Bank in Gonda district. He was a national player for Double Trap shooting and holds a BBA and Law