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Fourth Phase Of Lok Sabha Elections For 96 Seats: Akhilesh Yadav, Mahua Moitra And Asaduddin Owaisi In Fray
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi.
The fourth phase of voting in the Lok Sabha elections is being held today (13 May) in 96 Parliamentary Constituencies of 10 States and Union Territories (UT).
Jharkhand and Odisha will begin polling today and continue till the last phase of elections on 1 June. Both states will be voting on four seats each today.
Odisha will also have the first phase of voting for the Assembly elections and Andhra Pradesh will vote for both Assembly and Parliamentary elections on all seats.
All 17 seats of Telangana will also vote today. Madhya Pradesh will conclude its Lok Sabha elections with voting on the last eight seats.
Five seats of Bihar, 11 of Maharashtra, 13 of Uttar Pradesh, eight of West Bengal and one seat of Jammu and Kashmir will also vote today.
Key contests are to be seen in Hyderabad, where BJP's Madhavi Latha is challenging sitting AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi and Secunderbad, where Union Minister G Kishan Reddy is looking to retain his seat.
In Krishnanagar, Mahua Moitra is contesting again on a Trinamool Congress (TMC) symbol despite being expelled by Lok Sabha in cash-for-query case.
Sitting Congress MP in Baharampur, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary is being challenged by cricketer Yusuf Pathan and BJP MP SS Ahluwalia is challenging sitting TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha in Asansol.
Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav is challenging sitting Kannauj MP Subrat Pathak, who defeated his wife Dimple in 2019.
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