Lok Sabha elections 2024 Phase 3: Amit Shah, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Dimple Yadav, others stand at fate's crossroads

The apical parties contesting successful the Phase 3 of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 see the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) among others. Let's cognize astir the apical contestants who volition person their fates tested successful the Phase 3 of the Lok Sabha elections 2024:

TOP CANDIDATES IN PHASE 3

Amit Shah: Union Minister and elder BJP person Amit Shah is contesting from Gandhinagar Lok Sabha spot successful Gujarat. Amit Shah, eyeing a 2nd word from Gandhinagar, volition beryllium contesting against Congress' Sonal Patel. The BJP has been unefeated successful this spot since 1989. In 2019 polls, Amit Shah had won implicit Congress' CJ Chavda with a triumph borderline of 5.55 lakh votes.

Dimple Yadav: SP campaigner Dimple Yadav is contesting the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from SP citadel ‘Mainpuri’ successful Uttar Pradesh. After the decease of SP laminitis Mulayam Singh Yadav successful 2022, his daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav bagged the spot successful a bypoll. Dimple Yadav has been a three-time MP who volition beryllium contesting BJP campaigner Jaiveer Singh, warring to prevention Mulayam's legacy.

Jyotiraditya Scindia: Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia is the BJP campaigner successful Guna Lok Sabha constituency going to polls connected May 7 successful the Phase 3 of the Lok Sabha elections 2024. Jyotiraditya Scindia is locking horns with Rao Yadvendra Singh of the Congress. In 2019 polls, BJP's Krishna Pal Singh had defeated Jyotiraditya Scindia, a Congress candidate.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan: Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been fielded by the BJP from Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency. The longest serving Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been five-time MP from Vidisha constituency. This Lok Sabha elections, Shivraj Singh Chouhan is contesting against Pratap Bhanu Sharma of the Congress.

Supriya Sule: NCP patriarch Sharad Pawar's girl Supriya Sule is 1 of the most-watched candidates successful the Phase 3 of the Lok Sabha elections 2024 from Baramati seat. Why? Because it's a Pawar vs Pawar contest. Three-time sitting MP Supriya Sule is up against Sunetra Pawar, the woman of Ajit Pawar, who has switched implicit to the BJP-led NDA and became Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister.

CONSTITUENCIES GOING TO POLLS IN PHASE 3

Assam: Dhubri, Kokrajhar, Barpeta, Gauhati

Bihar: Jhanjharpur, Supaul, Araria, Madhepura, Khagaria

Chhattisgarh: Sarguja, Raigarh, Janjgir-Champa, Korba, Bilaspur, Durg, Raipur

Dadra and Nagar Haveli

Daman and Diu

Goa: North Goa, South Goa

Gujarat: Kachchh, Banaskantha, Patan, Mahesana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad East, Ahmedabad West, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Porbandar, Jamnagar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal, Dahod, Vadodara, Chhota Udaipur, Bharuch, Bardoli, Navsari, Valsad

Karnataka: Chikkodi, Belgaum, Bagalkot, Bijapur, Gulbarga, Raichur, Bidar, Koppal, Bellary, Haveri, Dharwad, Uttara Kannada, Davangere, Shimoga

Madhya Pradesh: Betul, Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh, Betul

Maharashtra: Baramati, Raigad, Dharashiv, Latur (SC), Solapur (SC), Madha, Sangli, Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg, Kolhapur, Hatkanangle

Uttar Pradesh: Sambhal, Hathras, Agra (SC), Fatehpur Sikri, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Budaun, Aonla, Bareilly

West Bengal: Maldaha Uttar, Maldaha Dakshin, Jangipur, Murshidabad

As galore arsenic 1,351 candidates from 12 states and UTs are successful the fray for the 3rd signifier of the Lok Sabha elections connected May 7, the Election Commission said connected Tuesday. In the 3rd phase, Gujarat had the maximum of 658 information forms from 26 parliamentary constituencies, followed by Maharashtra with 519 nominations from 11 seats, according to the EC.

Osmanabad constituency successful Maharashtra received the maximum of 77 information forms, followed by Bilaspur spot successful Chhattisgarh with 68 information forms, the canvass sheet said.

(With bureau inputs)

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Published: 04 May 2024, 09:20 AM IST