Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Phase 6 | List of high-profile candidates in fray for Elections
Lok Sabha Polls 2024 Phase 6 : Voting for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha Elections, which covers 58 seats across eight States and two Union Territories (UTs), is set to decide the electoral fate of leaders from some of the high-profile constituencies, including Anantnag Rajouri, Puri and North East Delhi.
Of the 58 Lok Sabha seats, 14 are from Uttar Pradesh, 10 from Haryana, 8 each from West Bengal and Bihar, 7 from Delhi, 6 from Odisha, 4 from Jharkhand and one from Jammu and Kashmir.
The prominent candidates in the fray include two former Chief Ministers - Manohar Lal Khattar and Mehbooba Mufti. Khattar is contesting as the BJP candidate from Karnal and Mehbooba Mufti as the PDP nominee from Anantnag-Rajouri.
Some of the prominent candidates in the fray include Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra and former Union Minister Maneka Gandhi.
Bansuri Swaraj, Somnath Bharti, Manoj Tiwari, Kanhaiya Kumar, Dinesh Lal Yadav alias 'Nirahua', Dharmendra Yadav, Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Agnimitra Paul, Naveen Jindal, Raj Babbar, Deepender Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja and Aparajita Sarangia are among other prominent candidates in the fray.
Congress has fielded former JNU Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar from North-East Delhi. He will face BJP's Manoj Tiwari who is eyeing his third term from the constituency. Tiwari defeated former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit from this constituency in the 2019 elections and is the only BJP MP in Delhi of all seven sitting MPs to get a chance to fight the Lok Sabha polls in the national capital this year.
New Delhi
Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Somnath Bharti to contest from the New Delhi seat. Bharti who represents Malviya Nagar Assembly in Delhi Vidhan Sabha will lock horns with the Bansuri Swaraj, who is the daughter of the late BJP stalwart Sushma Swaraj. Meenakshi Lekhi who is the Union Minister won this seat in 2019. She defeated Congress' Ajay Maken.
Anantnag Rajouri
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti will contest against National Conference Mian Altaf Ahmad. This is the first election being held in the reconstituted Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat.
Karnal
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has fielded Manohar Lal Khattar, a two-time Chief Minister of Haryana, as its candidate for the Karnal Lok Sabha seat. He will be contesting against Divyanshu Budhiraja from the Congress, Virender Maratha from the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party, and Devendra Kadyan from the Jannayak Janta Party (JJP). This four-way battle makes the Karnal constituency a critical and closely watched contest in Haryana.
Sultanpur
BJP has fielded incumbent MP Maneka Gandhi who will face Samajwadi Party's Rambhual Nishad and BSP leader Udraj Verma. Since Independence, Sultanpur has seen MPs from several parties and no single party has had an outright dominance on the seat. Congress has won eight times in Sultanpur, while BSP has won twice and BJP has secured victory four times. In the 2019 general election, Maneka Gandhi from the BJP won the seat with a margin of 14,526 votes.
Rohtak
Congress has fielded Deepender Hooda from Rohtak and he will face BJP's Arvind Sharma. The previous election in 2019 saw Arvind Sharma narrowly defeat Deepender Singh Hooda by just 7,503 votes. Sharma secured 573,845 votes while Hooda received 566,342 votes. They are again pitted against each other, making the election on this seat interesting.
Azamgarh
Azamgarh is all set to face a repeat of the same contest, with the two Yadavs in the fray again fighting it out for this coveted seat of Uttar Pradesh. Bharatiya Janata Party leader and Bhojpuri actor Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua' and Samajwadi Party candidate Dharmendra Yadav. After Mainpuri and Kannauj, the Samajwadi Party had made Azamgarh as its bastion. Even SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav contested the election from here. Akhilesh too won the 2019 election, but the SP lost the bye-election to BJP when Dinesh Yadav won the election from here.
Kurukshetra
BJP has fielded Naveen Jindal who will face Sushil Gupta of the AAP and Indian National Lok Dal leader Abhay Singh Chautala. Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh registered victory from the Kurukshetra in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
889 candidates are in the fray to contest elections across six states and two union territories going for polls in Phase 6 of Lok Sabha Elections 2024.
Lok Sabha polls is being held in seven phases across from April 19 to June 1. The counting of votes is on June 4.
- With inputs from agencies
