Monday, April 14, 2014

Maha: Campaign for 2nd phase of polling to end tomorrow

Maha: Campaign for 2nd phase of polling to end tomorrow

As the campaign for second phase of
polling in Maharashtra draws to a close tomorrow, in which
nearly 3.25 crore voters are expected to decide the fate of
358 candidates, leaders are working feverishly to canvass and
take out rallies to ensure maximum support for their parties.
Several political bigwigs, including Union Home Minister
Sushilkumar Shinde, former Chief Minister Ashok Chavan and
senior BJP leader Gopinath Munde are in the fray in the second
phase of polling.
Total number of 3,24,27,558 electors in 19 constituencies
in western Maharashtra, Marathwada and Konkan will exercise
their franchise during the second phase of Lok Sabha polls in
Maharashtra on April 17.
The voters include 1,69,54,391 men and 1,53,77,605 women.
There are 306 voters in the others category and 95,256 in the
service category.
Ten constituencies of Vidarbha have already voted in the
first phase on April 10 and more than 60 per cent electorate
have cast their votes.
In the second phase, there are 358 candidates in fray,
including 24 women and 201 independents.
The constituencies that would go to polls are - Hingoli,
Nanded, Beed, Parbhani, Osmanabad and Latur in Marathwada,
Pune, Baramati, Shirur, Maval, Solapur, Madha, Sangli, Satara,
Kolhapur, Hathkanangale in Western Maharashtra, Shirdi,
Ahmednagar in North Maharashtra and Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg in
Konkan.
The generation next of Maharashtra politics - Supriya
Sule (Baramati) and Nilesh Rane (Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg) - are
seeking a second term.
Indian Youth Congress chief Rajiv Satav, who is
currently a legislator, is making a debut in electoral
politics from Hingoli.
Vishwajit Kadam, who is the state Youth Congress chief
and son of Congress veteran Patangrao Kadam, is also making
his debut from Pune.
There are 11 constituencies with more than 16 candidates,
while at one seat there are more than 32 candidates. Beed
constituency has maximum 39 candidates, while Baramati has the
lowest nine.
The largest constituency electorate wise is Maval with
19,46,127 voters while the smallest is Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg
with 13,63,957 electors. 

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