Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The buzz of campaign on 102 seats has subsided, know which are the hot seats? The reputation of which veterans is at stake?

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024, voting will be held on 102 seats on 19 April. The election campaign for 102 Lok Sabha seats in 21 states ended at 6 pm on Wednesday. With this, the noise of the first phase of election campaign has stopped.

The first phase of voting will be held on April 19 from 7 am to 6 pm. A total of 1626 candidates are contesting on 102 Lok Sabha seats in 21 states of the country. In the first phase, the fate of eight Union Ministers, two former Chief Ministers and one former Governor is at stake.

In the first phase, 8 from Uttar Pradesh, 13 from Rajasthan, 6 from Madhya Pradesh, 5 from Assam, 4 from Bihar, 5 from Maharashtra, one each from Jammu and Kashmir and Chhattisgarh, two each from Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh, one from Tripura. Voting will be held in six states, 39 from Tamil Nadu, 3 from West Bengal, Sikkim, Nagaland, Andaman and Nicobar, Mizoram, Puducherry, Manipur and Lakshadweep.

The credibility of many political figures will be tested in the first phase of elections. These include Union Minister of State Sanjeev Balyan, Jitin Prasad, Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, former Chief Minister Nabam Tuki, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, Nakul Nath, K Annamalai, former Governor Tamilisai Sundararajan, Nisith Pramanik etc.

In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections, Saharanpur, Rampur, Pilibhit, Muzaffarnagar of Uttar Pradesh, Dibrugarh, Sonitpur of Assam; Bastar of Chhattisgarh; Jamui, Gaya of Bihar; Udhampur seat of Jammu and Kashmir; Chhindwara of Madhya Pradesh; Chennai North, Coimbatore, Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu; Both the seats of Manipur, Bikaner of Rajasthan and Cooch Behar and Alipurduar seats of West Bengal will be under watch.

The press note for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections was released on 16 March 2024. The notification was issued on March 20, 2024. The last date for nomination was 27 March 2024. After this, he was examined on 28 March 2024. The last date for withdrawal of candidature was 30 March 2024.