2nd Phase Voting Continues in 88 LS Constituencies in 13 States & UTs

New Delhi: Voting continues in 88 constituencies across 13 states and Union Territories on Friday. Polling is being held for seats of Kerala, and parts of Rajasthan and UP.

Polling for the second phase is being held for 20 seats in Kerala, 14 seats in Karnataka, 13 in Rajasthan, eight each in Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, seven in Madhya Pradesh, five each in Assam and Bihar, three each in Bengal and Chhattisgarh and one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Manipur and Tripura.

Earlier, 89 constituencies were expected to vote in this phase. But polling in Betul, Madhya Pradesh, was rescheduled after the death of a BSP candidate. Voting will be held in Betul in the third phase, due on May 7.

Key candidates for this round include the Congress’s Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, Bhupesh Baghel. and Ashok Gehlot’s son Vaibhav Gehlot, BJP’s Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar  — up against Congress’s Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram; actors Hema Malini, and Arun Govil, senior BJP leader Tejasvi Surya and Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla.

The next phase of elections is due on May 7. The counting of votes will be held on June 4 – three days after the seventh and last phase of elections on June 1.