Elections to India’s Lok Sabha will move into high gear on Thursday when, in the third phase of polling, nearly 110 million electors in 91 constituencies across in 14 States and Union Territories (UTs) will exercise their franchise.to choose from amongst 1,419 candidates.
Minority votes could be key to outcome in several constituencies
Pictures of inked finger, with accompanying messages like “my vote, my pride”, “best thing I have done as an Indian citizen” are being posted on social networking sites.
A total of 1,414 candidates are in the fray Thursday, the third round of staggered national election that began April 7 in the country's northeast.
Having withdrawn from the contest for the Chandigarh Lok Sabha seat as the AAP candidate, actress Savita Bhatti on Tuesday floated the Nota Party with a wad of currency notes being its election symbol.
This is a classic case of contrast between two candidates coming from either ends of the rich-poor spectrum in electoral politics.
Campaigning for 10 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra’s Vidarbha region came to an end on Tuesday, 48 hours before voting begins.
This was the second such attack on the AAP leader in the last four days in Delhi.
It has been dubbed the “Battle for the Capital”.
They had a vocabulary of their own, the Indian general elections, with phrases that caused anxiety, jubilation, outrage or excitement.
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