Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Phase 3 Voting: The voting across 94 Lok Sabha constituencies in 10 states and 2 Union Territories is set to begin on Tuesday, May 7 during the third phase of India's seven-phase General Elections. These are some of the key contests that are being watched out across India with keen interest.
Baramati in Maharashtra is among the 11 constituencies in Maharashtra that are going to polls in the third phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 on May 7. The three-time MP and Sharad Pawar’s daughter Supriya Sule is taking on Sunetra Pawar, wife of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who split the National Congress Party (NCP) to join the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance last year.
Aditya Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's cousin and the son of his once estranged uncle Shivpal Yadav, is looking to make his Lok Sabha debut from Badaun, a seat which has traditionally been an SP stronghold.
Aditya is up against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party's Durvijay Sakya.
Union Minister of Home Affairs and top BJP leader Amit Shah is contesting from Gujarat's Gandhinagar, a seat previously represented by BJP patriarch Lal Krishna Advani. He is up against the Congress party's Sonalben Patel.
Akshay Yadav, another Akhilesh Yadav cousin, is contesting from Firozabad Lok Sabha constituency on Samajwadi Party ticket. He is up against the BJP's Vishwadeep Singh and Bahujan Samaj Party's Chowdhary Basheer.
Akhilesh Yadav's wife and serving Member of Parliament from Mainpuri, Dimple Yadav, is contesting against BJP's Jaiveer Singh and Bahujan Samaj Party's Shiv Prasad Yadav.
Senior BJP leader and Union minister in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet, Pralhad Joshi, is up against Vinod Asooti of the Congress party from Karnataka's Dharwad Lok Sabha seat.
Serving BJP MP Umesh Jadhav is seeking re-election from Gulbarga Lok Sabha seat. A constituency that had been a stronghold of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge for decades, Gulbarga's Congress candidate for Lok Sabha Elections 2024 is Radhakrishna Doddamani.
From Assam's Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency, All India Union Democratic Front's Badruddin Ajmal is up against Congress party's Rakibul Hussain and Asom Gana Parishad's Zabed Islam.
BJP's Jyotiraditya Scindia is up against Congress party's Rao Yadavendra Singh Yadav from Guna. Formerly with the Congress till 2020, Scindia is expecting to resume his winning streak from Guna that began in 2002 but was brokenin 2019 when Guna was won by the BJP.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has returned to contest from the constituency he represented for four terms between 1991 and 2006. He is up against the Congress party's Pratap Bhanu Sharma.