New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) issued Tuesday notification for the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha elections to be held, May 12 in 59 seats across seven states.
The seven-phase elections began April 11 and will end on May 19. Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal will head for voting in all the seven phases of the general elections. All the seven seats in Delhi will also go for polling in the sixth phase.
Amid sparring between Congress president Rahul Gandhi and Aam Admi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal on Twitter, sources claimed the two sides were ‘engaged’ in taking the alliance talks forward and are likely to meet again Wednesday over seat sharing between the two.
The Congress chief said his party is willing to give four of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi to the AAP to ensure that their alliance defeats the BJP, which had won all the seven seats in 2014. He stated that the party will contest in the other three seats. The arrangement has been arrived at on basis of the vote share of both parties in 2017 civic polls here.
With the issuance of notification, the process of filing nominations has begun. The last date of filing nominations is April 24, while scrutiny will take place, April 25. The last date of withdrawing from the electoral battle is April 26.
Some of the important constituencies going to polls May 12 are: Valmiki Nagar, Paschim Champaran, Vaishali, Gopalganj, Siwan and Maharajganj (Bihar); Sultanpur, Allahabad, Lalganj, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Machhlishahr and Bhadohi (UP).