Time for the Lok Sabha Elections 2019! #IndiaVotes #LokSabha2019

The 17th Lok Sabha Elections will be underway in less than 48 hours and the campaigning has come to an end today at 5PM. The polls for 1st phase will be on Thursday 11th April for 91 Lok Sabha seats covering 20 states. Of the 20 states going for polls, 10 states are going for polls completely. This means on the very first day of elections the campaigning of elections for 10 states will be over.

The 10 most important seats that go to polls on 11th April and the details of the contestants and little trivia about them.

1. Arunachal East: North East has turned out to be BJP’s new fortress after 2014. BJP was able to either stitch right coalitions or with their ground level, hard work was able to build faith in the people of North East in the last 5 years. That was seen in the various Assembly election of North Eastern States. Well, coming to the Arunachal East seat, Kiran Rijiju is fighting for BJP and James Lowancha for Congress. Rijiju is a powerful leader who is the present union minister of state for Home affairs and had played an important role in Balakot Air Strikes.

2. Srikakulam: Andhra Pradesh is no clear slate for any party. There are voices giving wins for either party but nothing seems to be clear. Ram Mohan Naidu contesting for TDP is the son of famous Yerran Naidu. Ram Mohan is the sitting MP and TDP will hope to retain this seat. D Srinivas from YSRCP and P Samba Murthy from BJP are other contestants.

3. Vizianagaram: Another important seat from Andhra Pradesh. Basically because of the competition in this area. Ashok Gajapathi Raju is contesting for TDP who has worked as Civil Aviation Minister for NDA when TDP was with BJP. Though a minister, he seems to be losing this seat as the YSRCP wave is building strongly. B Chandra Shekar is YSRCP candidate and P Sanyasi Raju is BJP candidate.

4. Visakhapatnam: A 3rd important seat from Andhra Pradesh. Very important for BJP. This is the only seat which the BJP is expecting to win in AP. D Purandeshwari, daughter of NTR is contesting for BJP. MVV Satyanarayana is YSRCP candidate and MV Sribharat is TDP candidate. Purandeshwari last contested from Rajampet and lost by 1.8 lakh votes. Vizag being an urban seat, BJP expecting a win here.

5. Jamui: Bihar now, Chirag Paswan son of Ram Vilas Paswan is contesting for NDA (BJP). Bhudev Choudhury is from RLSP. The story is that Ram Vilas Paswan is a veteran leader who has been a minister in the Indian government since 1989. He gets the mood of the people well before everyone and always sides the winning team. This time again he chose NDA by asking his Son to contest. Victory very probable.

6. Nagpur: One from Maharashtra, the top leader of BJP, Nitin Gadkari will be contesting from Nagpur. Very famous leader and has got the power to win the battle easily. Very well accepted in his constituency and is known for his work as Road Minister and Ganga Cleaning project. Sure win for BJP

this one. Contesting against is Nana Patole from Congress.

7. Nizamabad: Moving to Telangana, K Kavitha is the candidate from TRS and from the opposition is Madhu Yashki Goud from Congress. Though we have the leader from BJP, D Aravind, the battle is between the two big leaders of INC and TRS. Though it seems most likely that the people will choose Kavitha as their winner, INC will look to give tough competition.

8. Secunderabad: 2nd one from Telangana, BJP has fielded in the next-gen leader G. Kishan Reddy and Congress has got Anjan Kumar Yadav and TRS has their young leader Sai Kiran Yadav. This is the seat of reckoning for BJP, this is the only seat which has the most possible chance of Victory in Telangana. But the things aren’t looking right for BJP and Kishan Reddy who has been hoping for a Victory might have to wait for more time.

9. Hyderabad: 3rd one from Hyderabad. No question raised and no doubts raised, this will be yet another victory for the chief of AIMIM Asaddudin Owaisi. Feroz Khan is contesting for Congress who jumped from TDP. But the things won’t change and Asaddudin will win Hyderabad for 5th Time.

10. Muzaffarnagar: This is a very interesting battle from Uttar Pradesh. Ajit Singh is contesting from RLD and Sanjeev Kumar Balyan is fighting for BJP. In the last elections in 2014, BJP won this seat with as many as 3.5 lakh votes. This was when the parties were scattered and BJP cruised through on arithmetically. This time as per voter share BJP will be losing the battle as BJP is going alone against the powerful Jat-Yadav-Muslim-Dalit combine of RLD-SP-BSP. Very unpredictable seat.

Facts: 2014 Elections Results of Phase 1 that has 91 seats

  • NDA won 38
  • UPA won 7
  • TDP won 18
  • TRS won 11
  • YSRCP of Jagan won 9
  • Biju Janata Dal in Odisha won 4
  • AITC of Mamta Banerjee won 2
  • AIMIM won 1
  • PDP won 1
  • Number of Constituencies 91
  • No. of candidates 1285
  • Number of polling centres 1,69,400

Let’s wait and watch how the polling goes and who wins what!

Published by Sriram

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