NEW DELHI:
Campaigning
for the third phase of
Lok Sabha elections
on May 7 ended Sunday in a blaze of high-decibel sound across 93 seats in 12 states and UTs, including all 25 seats of Gujarat and key constituencies with prominent contestants such as home minister
Amit Shah
in Gandhinagar, Jyotiraditya Scindia in Guna, Dimple Yadav in Mainpuri and Supriya Sule in the Pawar family stronghold of Baramati.
Besides Gujarat, the poll battleground for the third of seven phases spans 14 seats in Karnataka, seven in Chhattisgarh, four in Assam, five in Bihar, 11 in Maharashtra, 10 in UP, four in Bengal, two each in Goa, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu, and one in J&K.
Betul in MP was to vote during the second phase, but polling was postponed after the death of BSP candidate Ashok Bhalavi.
In Karnataka, where BJP is defending its presence in all 14 constituencies that will vote on Tuesday, PM Modi led the campaign with five rallies in two days. Shah held a roadshow in Haveri and a rally in Dharwad.
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi and AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi – the former campaigned in Shimoga and Raichur and the latter in Haveri and Davangere – focused on the Neha Hiremath murder and the Revanna sex scandal.
Among the opposition faces, Congress veteran Digvijaya Singh is in the battle for the Rajgarh seat. In Assam, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal’s borough Dhubri is among the seats at stake.
