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Lok Sabha polls: Voting underway in sixth phase

| | Apr 24, 2014, at 03:02 pm
New Delhi, Apr 24 (IBNS) Over 18 crore voters in 11 states and Union Territory (UT) of Puducherry are exercising their franchise in the sixth of the nine-phased Lok Sabha elections on Thursday.

 There are a total of 2076 candidates in the fray across 117 constituencies.

Polling is being held in all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu, 19 of 48 in Maharashtra, including Mumbai, 12 of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, 10 of 29 in Madhya Pradesh, 7 of 40 in Bihar, 7 of 11 in Chhattisgarh, 6 of 14 in Assam, 6 of 42 in West Bengal, 5 of 25 in Rajasthan, 4 of 14 in Jharkhand, 1 of 6 in Jammu & Kashmir and the one seat in Puducherry.

The big names whose fates will be decided on Thursday are Union Ministers Salman Khurshid, Milind Deora, Namo Narayan Meena, Jitendra Singh and Tariq Anwar, Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj, Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, actor-turned BJP leader Hema Malini, former Indian cricket captain Mohammed Azharuddin and President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee.

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