Voting has begun for the final phase of the Lok Sabha elections in eastern Uttar Pradesh, northwestern Bihar and southern West Bengal. In the ninth and final round of voting on May 12, a total of 6,61,31,802 voters are deciding the fate of 606 candidates in 41 seats in the three crucial states.
The big battle is being fought in Varanasi with Congress's Ajay Rai pitted against Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Ministerial candidate Narendra Modi and Aam Aadmi Party National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal. The fate of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav (Azamgarh) will also be sealed.
Also in the fray are Filmmaker and JDU candidate Prakash Jha (Paschim Champaran) and Rashtriya Janata Dal's Raghuvansh Prasad Singh (Vaishali) in Bihar and Trinamool Congress's Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Dinesh Trivedi, Sougata Roy, Dipak Adhikari (Dev), Tapas Paul, Mamata Banerjee's nephew Abhishek Banerjee, Communist Party of India-Marxist's Subhasini Ali and Asim Dasgupta in West Bengal.
Key Candidates
Uttar Pradesh:
Narendra Modi vs Arvind Kejriwal vs Ajay Rai - Varanasi
Mulayam Singh Yadav - SP - Azamgarh
Yogi Adityanath - BJP - Gorakhpur
Jagadambika Pal - BJP - Domariyaganj
West Bengal:
Sudip Bandopadhyay vs Rupa Bagchi vs Somen Mitra - North Kolkata
Nandini Mukherjee vs Subrata Bakshi - South Kolkata
Sugata Roy vs Asim Dasgupta vs Tapan Sikdar - Dum Dum
Sugata Bose vs Sujan Chakraborty - Jadavpur
PC Sorkar - Barasat
Bihar:
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh - RJD - Vaishali
Prakash Jha - JDU - Pashchim Champaran
Heena Shahab - RJD - Siwan
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