Lok Sabha elections: 58 seats across 6 states, two UTs go to polls in phase six on Saturday
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, Rao Inderjit Singh and Krishan Pal Gurjar, Deepender Hooda, industrialist Naveen Jindal, Bansuri Swaraj, Manoj Tiwari, Kanhaiya Kumar, Bhartruhari Mahtab, 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 Jammu and Kashmir where Mufti is the PDP candidate. The Election Commission had postponed polling on this seat from the third to the sixth phase due to logistical reasons owing to adverse climate conditions.
Unlike in 2014 and 2019 when BJP had won all seven seats in Delhi, this time the battle is not easy for the saffron party as AAP and Congress have joined hands with the former contesting four seats and the latter three. In the prestigious Chandni Chowk seat, Congress candidate and veteran leader JP Aggarwal is said to be the frontrunner. Mahabal Mishra, a former Congressman now in AAP, is the INDIA candidate from West Delhi and is seen as a strong candidate.
New Delhi constituency, from where stalwarts like Atal Bihari Vajpayee, LK Advani and Rajesh Khanna have contested in the past, has an interesting contest this
