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Voting on Friday echoes second phase of election campaign amid forecast of calm heat wave

New Delhi: In the second phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, voting will be held on 89 seats in 13 states on April 26, so the campaign on these seats ended this evening.

In the first phase of Lok Sabha elections to be held in seven phases last Friday, 65.5 percent voting took place in 102 seats in 21 states and union territories.

All 20 seats in Kerala, 14 out of 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, 8 seats in Maharashtra, 8 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 7 seats in Madhya Pradesh, 5 seats in Assam, 5 seats in Bihar, 3 seats in Chhattisgarh. Three seats in West Bengal will be up for grabs in the second phase of elections to be held on April 26, out of which one is from Manipur, one from Tripura and one from Jammu and Kashmir.

Prominent leaders whose fate will be decided in the elections to be held on April 26 include Union Minister Rajiv Chandrashekhar (Thiruvananthapuram), BJP's Tejaswi Surya (Karnataka), Hema Malini (Uttar Pradesh), Arun Govil (Uttar Pradesh), Rahul Gandhi. . (Wayanad), Shashi Tharoor (Uttar Pradesh), including Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar's brother DK Suresh (Congress) and former Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy (JDS).

After Friday's elections, voting will be completed on all the seats in Kerala, Rajasthan and Tripura.

Earlier, after the first phase of elections held on April 19, Tamil Nadu (39 seats), Uttarakhand (5 seats), Arunachal Pradesh (2 seats), Meghalaya (2 seats), Andaman and Nicobar (1 seat), Mizoram (1 seat). , Nagaland (1 seat), Puducherry (1 seat), Sikkim (1 seat), Lakshadweep (1 seat), the 89 seats for which voting is to be held in the second phase on April 26 include 56 seats of NDA and 24 seats of UPA. Had won in 2019. Under the third phase, voting will be held on 7 May for 94 seats in 12 states and union territories.