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Polling for first phase of parliamentary elections Thursday
New Delhi, Apr 15 (PTI) The fate of Rashtriya Janata
Dal's (RJD) Lalu Prasad, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Murli
Manohar Joshi and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K
Chandrasekhar Rao will be decided Thursday in the polling for
the first phase of parliamentary elections that was marked by
bitter exchanges between petulant politicians.
A total of 124 constituencies spread over 15 states
and two Union Territories will go to the polls with a total
electorate of 14.31 crores. The polling would be held from
0700 hrs to 1700 hrs in most constituencies and from 0700 hrs
to 1500 hrs in naxal-infested areas.
Prominent among those seeking election to the lower house
of Parliament in the first phase are Congress' Renuka
Chowdhury and Shashi Tharoor, actress Vijayasanthi, NTR's
daughter D Purandeswari and former union minister B
Dattatreya.
While all 20 seats in Kerala, 11 in Chhattisgarh and
two in Meghalaya would go to polls in a single phase tomorrow,
polling would be held in 13 out of 40 seats in Bihar, 16 out
of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra 13 (48), Andhra Pradesh 22
(42), Jharkhand 6 (14), Orissa 10 (21), Assam 3 (14),
Arunachal Pradesh 2 (2), Manipur 1 (2) and Jammu and Kashmir 1
(6).
The lone seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland would also be covered.
Voters casting their vote in the first phase will have
to wait for more than a month for the results as counting will
be taken up only on May 16.
Elections are also simultaneously being held to 154
assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 70 assembly
seats in Orissa in the first phase.
A total of 1,715 candidates, including 122 women, are
seeking elections to the Lok Sabha. The polling would be held
across 1.85 lakh election stations. As has become customary,
voters would be exercising their franchise through Electronic
Voting Machines.
The campaigning was mostly peaceful but verbally violent.
with politicians making personal attacks. The highlight
remains Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's retort to the repeated
attacks by his BJP rival L K Advani, who had called him the
"weakest", and Varun Gandhi's alleged hate-speech in the Lok
Sabha constituency of Pilibhit.
Varun has since given an undertaking to the Supreme
Court that he would not make any speeches that incite communal
passions.
The Supreme Court will be hearing the matter tomorrow
when parts of the country would already be voting to decide
who would go to Lok Sabha. PTI
Dal's (RJD) Lalu Prasad, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Murli
Manohar Joshi and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) chief K
Chandrasekhar Rao will be decided Thursday in the polling for
the first phase of parliamentary elections that was marked by
bitter exchanges between petulant politicians.
A total of 124 constituencies spread over 15 states
and two Union Territories will go to the polls with a total
electorate of 14.31 crores. The polling would be held from
0700 hrs to 1700 hrs in most constituencies and from 0700 hrs
to 1500 hrs in naxal-infested areas.
Prominent among those seeking election to the lower house
of Parliament in the first phase are Congress' Renuka
Chowdhury and Shashi Tharoor, actress Vijayasanthi, NTR's
daughter D Purandeswari and former union minister B
Dattatreya.
While all 20 seats in Kerala, 11 in Chhattisgarh and
two in Meghalaya would go to polls in a single phase tomorrow,
polling would be held in 13 out of 40 seats in Bihar, 16 out
of 80 in Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra 13 (48), Andhra Pradesh 22
(42), Jharkhand 6 (14), Orissa 10 (21), Assam 3 (14),
Arunachal Pradesh 2 (2), Manipur 1 (2) and Jammu and Kashmir 1
(6).
The lone seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands,
Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland would also be covered.
Voters casting their vote in the first phase will have
to wait for more than a month for the results as counting will
be taken up only on May 16.
Elections are also simultaneously being held to 154
assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh and 70 assembly
seats in Orissa in the first phase.
A total of 1,715 candidates, including 122 women, are
seeking elections to the Lok Sabha. The polling would be held
across 1.85 lakh election stations. As has become customary,
voters would be exercising their franchise through Electronic
Voting Machines.
The campaigning was mostly peaceful but verbally violent.
with politicians making personal attacks. The highlight
remains Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's retort to the repeated
attacks by his BJP rival L K Advani, who had called him the
"weakest", and Varun Gandhi's alleged hate-speech in the Lok
Sabha constituency of Pilibhit.
Varun has since given an undertaking to the Supreme
Court that he would not make any speeches that incite communal
passions.
The Supreme Court will be hearing the matter tomorrow
when parts of the country would already be voting to decide
who would go to Lok Sabha. PTI
