Tribune News Service
New Delhi, March 28
Nominations for the third phase of Lok Sabha elections for 115 seats across 14 states began on Thursday. The Election Commission has issued a notification in this regard. Voting for this phase will take place on April 23.
All the seats in Goa, Gujarat, Kerala, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu, and Puducherry will go to the polls in this phase. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal will head for voting in all the seven phases of the General Election.
According to the Election Commission, the parliamentary constituencies going to the polls in the third phase in Uttar Pradesh include Moradabad, Rampur, Sambhal, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etah, Badaun, Aonla, Bareilly and Pilibhit. Jhanjharpur, Supaul Araria, Madhepura Khagaria in Bihar and Surguja (ST), Raigarh (ST), Janjgir-Champa (SC), Korba, Bilaspur, Durg and Raipur in Chhattisgarh will go to polls in the third phase.
Voting for the Anantnag seat in Jammu and Kashmir will be conducted in this phase.
The nominations began on Thursday and the last date for filing papers is April 4. The scrutiny of nominations will be done on April 5. The last date for withdrawal of candidature is April 8, the notification said.
The election will pit the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance against mostly different Opposition groupings in various states, including the Congress, the Left and regional forces, who continue to work out a grand alliance to minimise the division of votes against the saffron party.
The BJP has worked out alliances with some new allies and several old partners. However, the Opposition parties are yet to finalise tie-ups in several states.
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