The fifth phase of polling will be held in the country on Monday after the phase 4 elections were held smoothly. The fate of several high profile leaders of the country will be decided in this election.
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These constituencies are now getting the attention of the town. Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Smriti Zubin Irani, Piyush Goyal, Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi are among the high-profile leaders who are contesting the fifth phase of the elections.
Five seats in Bihar, three seats in Jharkhand, 13 seats in Maharashtra, five seats in Odisha, 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, seven seats in West Bengal.
one each in Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh. Meanwhile, the political fate of 695 candidates will be captured in EVMs today in 49 constituencies. Of the 695 candidates, 82 are women candidates.
It is pertinent to mention here that while BJP candidate Smriti Irani is contesting from Amethi constituency in Uttar Pradesh, Congress candidate Kishorilal Sharma is contesting.
Similarly, Rahul Gandhi will contest from Rae Bareli. On the whole, today’s election has been widely discussed in the political circles of the country.
Which are the high-profile candidates from which constituency in the phase 5 polling ?
Voting is being held in 49 constituencies in eight states of the country, including union territories. The fate of several high profile leaders of the country will be decided in this election.
Smriti Zubin Irani (BJP) from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, Kishori Lala Sharma (Congress), Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli, Rajnath Singh from Lucknow, Karan Bhushan Singh from Keisharganj
Significantly, Rahul Gandhi wants to inherit the constituency that Sonia Gandhi has been representing since 2004. Significantly, there have also been reports of BJP candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh facing non-cooperation of BJP MLA Aditi Singh in Rae Bareli.
The Raebareli constituency, known as a stronghold of the Congress and the Gandhi family, was contested by Feroz Gandhi in 1952-57. Indira Gandhi contested and won in 1967, 1971 and 1980.
Sonia Gandhi, on the other hand, contested the Reubereli constituency from 2004 to the 2019 elections. The Congress has lost only three times since Independence in this constituency.
Bjp’s Ashok Sharma won the elections in 1996 and 1998 while the Janata Dal was captured in 1977. Amethi was held by Rahul Gandhi from 2004 to 2019 consecutively.
Prior to Rahul, Sonia Gandhi represented Amethi in 1999 while Rajiv Gandhi won the 1984, 1989 and 1991 elections from Amethi.
Sanjay Gandhi had won from Amethi in 1980 before Rajiv Gandhi. Sanjay’s wife Maneka Gandhi left the house in protest against the views of Indira Gandhi seeking an inheritance of the constituency that Sanjay Gandhi had won.
Sanjay Gandhi had won from Amethi in 1980 before Rajiv Gandhi. Sanjay’s wife Maneka Gandhi left the house in protest against the views of Indira Gandhi seeking an inheritance of the constituency that Sanjay Gandhi had won.
Meanwhile, BJP candidate and Union Minister Smriti Irani is in a strong position in Amethi constituency. The Union minister had defeated Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by 55,000 votes in Amethi constituency in the 2019 elections.
Chirag Paswan from Hajipur constituency in Bihar, Rohini Acharya from Charan constituency and Rajiv Pratap Ruddi (BJP) and Raj Bhushan Chaudhary from Muzaffarpur are contesting.
Piyush Goyal from North Mumbai in Maharashtra, Ravindra Dattaram Waikar from North-West Mumbai, Arvind Sawant from South Mumbai.
Ujjwal Nikam (BJP) from North-Central Mumbai and Dr. Shrikant Shinde (Shiv Sena) from Varsha Gaikwad (Congress) and Kalyan constituencies
Arjun Singh (BJP) and Parth Bhowmik (TMC), Howrah- Rathin Chakraborty (BJP) and Prasoon Banerjee (TMC) are contesting from Barrackpore in West Bengal.
Jammu &Kashmir’s Baramulla recorded 7.63 per cent voter turnout till 9 am
Around 17.38 lakh voters have qualified to vote for the Baramulla seat while Ladakh has more than 1.84 lakh registered voters.
As many as 22 candidates from various political parties and independent groups have descended into the maharana due to the ongoing political rivalry in Baramulla.
Baramulla has 8,75,831 male, 862,000 female and 34 third gender voters in the voter demographics. This includes 17,128 persons with disabilities (PwDs) and 527 voters above 100 years of age.
The constituency was represented by Sheikh Mohammad Akbar of the Indian National Congress in 1957. After this, the Congress remained strong in the 1967 and 1971 elections and both times Syed Ahmed Agha won.
Abdul Ahad Wakil, who represented the Jammu and Kashmir National Conference in 1977, won. The political dynamics change instantly. That was a sign of a change in the political winds of Baramulla.
But in 1980, when Khwaja Mubarak Shah of the Indian National Congress reclaimed the seat, the change became short-lived.
Phase 5 of polling: Only 56.68 per cent polling till 5 pm
52.35 per cent in Bihar, 54.21 per cent in Jammu and Kashmir, Jharkhand – 61.90 per cent, Ladakh 67.15 per cent, Maharashtra – 48.66 per cent, Odisha – 60.55 per cent, Uttar Pradesh – 55.80 per cent, West Bengal – 73.00 per cent.
Why has the voter turnout come down?
The rest is and voting for 115 seats in two phases. Polling will be held in 58 and 57 seats respectively in the sixth and seventh phases on May 25 and June 1.
With just 10 days left for the elections to end, a question has come to mind now. Is the common man disillusioned with the democratic system in India, which is known as the world’s largest democracy?
Has the country’s electoral system not been able to attract voters? Isn’t the public interested in the election festival, which is touted to be the biggest festival of democracy?
Those who have seen the voter turnout well in the 5 phases of polling that have already been completed must have noticed that the voter turnout has come down.
Alarmingly in several states in parallel to the decline in the voter turnout as compared to the previous one as a whole.
Of the eight states and Union Territories that went to polls today, Maharashtra recorded a voter turnout of just 49.15 per cent.
Polling in the state is being held in a total of five phases this time. In all these five phases, the voter turnout is very low.
Polling was held in a total of five constituencies in the state in the first phase of elections. The voter turnout in these five constituencies was 63.71 per cent. The voter turnout in the first phase of polling in Bihar again was just 49.26 per cent.
Among the states and UTs that went to polls in the first phase, Andaman and Nicobar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh recorded a voter turnout of less than 65 per cent.
Similarly, in Mizoram, Nagaland, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand, the voter turnout is below 50 per cent and below 60 per cent.
Same is the case with the second phase of polling as in the first phase. Bihar recorded a voter turnout of 59.45 per cent, Madhya Pradesh 58.59 per cent, Uttar Pradesh 55.19 per cent. In Maharashtra, Rajasthan, the voter turnout is below 65 per cent.
In the third phase, out of 11 states and Union Territories, Bihar recorded only 59.15 per cent voting, Uttar Pradesh 57.55 per cent.
Similarly, Maharashtra recorded 63.55 per cent, Madhya Pradesh 66.75 per cent, Gujarat 60.13 per cent.
Same is the case with the fourth phase of polling. The Srinagar constituency, which went to polls for the first time since the abrogation of Article 370, recorded only 38.49 per cent voting in The Srinagar constituency, which went to polls in this phase.
Uttar Pradesh recorded a voter turnout of 58.22 per cent, Bihar 58.21 per cent. The voter turnout in Maharashtra did not touch 65 per cent. The voter turnout in Telangana is 65.67 per cent. Jharkhand again recorded 66.01 per cent voting.
If we compare the voting for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, there were 3.44 per cent less turnout in the first phase, 2.74 per cent in the second phase, 2.72 per cent in the third phase and 6.64 per cent less in the fifth phase as compared to 2019.
It was only in the fourth phase that the voter turnout was 3.66 per cent higher than in 2019.
Now the question is why is the voter turnout declining from state to state? In Manipur, which has been burning for more than a year, with no winds of peace, the voter turnout has crossed 85 per cent.
Why, after that, in states like Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Telangana, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, etc., the voter turnout could not touch 60 or 70 per cent of the households?
What exactly is this a sign of? Voting rights is a democratic, constitutional right. It is through this right that the people of the country can give their opinion.
It is through elections that people have got the power to bring to power or who will be removed from power. A voter can take that decision by casting one vote each.
This election at the end of five years is the only weapon to bring to power according to the anger towards the government or the policies of a particular party, the promise made for the benefit of the people.
But voters do not want to use these weapons.It is not a matter of discussion whether the ruling or opposition will benefit, who will suffer losses if the turnout drops.
If that too is a topic of discussion then there are many questions left. Why are voters not coming to vote? Disillusionment with politics?
Or is the voter expressing satisfaction with the ruling party? Or is it because of the difference between words and actions of elected governments that voters have stopped voting? These are the issues that need to be discussed.
In election rallies, political leaders have now started asking for votes by talking about temples, mosques, food habits. There is no problem in this country other than religious talk. Only the politics of religion remains.
People are disturbed to hear these things. Whatever the ruling party has done in a total of 10 years with its two terms, should have been able to take it to the people.
But he has gone to ask for votes to make a person the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister is again seeking votes in every corner of the country by supporting the Ram temple.
Even the opposition has not been able to understand the minds of the people. I don’t realise what the people really want.
The opposition, which is unable to study the minds and minds of the people, is contesting elections on some issues that they have not been able to touch the common voter.
Even educated and conscious voters are not giving much importance to these things. For the majority of voters, it is not understandable how immense the importance of this term is except for being a sound to hear the Constitution, democracy.
The common voter has been deceived by all the ruling and opposition. The prime minister may have forgotten the promises that the BJP had promised to free it from the misrule of the Congress.
Employment of the unemployed, corruption, poverty-free India, bringing back black money and giving Rs 15 lakh through bank accounts etc. were promises. They are the past now.
Voters were impressed by that promise and voted. They were expecting that promise to be fulfilled. That hope was shattered.
Those who came to power with the talk of development are now focused on who will lock the temple, who will eat what, what to wear, who will protect the religion.
People have not forgotten the Congress rule yet. Even among other opposition parties, the anger over power has not been able to earn the confidence of the people.
In such a situation, the voter himself is caught up in many questions about whom to vote for, why to vote, what will be the change to see.
So maybe I’m not interested in voting. But this is by no means an auspicious target for the country, the constitution of the country, the democratic system of the country.
Whatever be the outcome, the Election Commission will have to make more awareness about the voters who also come to vote. The onus is more on them.
But it is also noteworthy what will be the next step of the Election Commission, especially in states like Maharashtra, Bihar, etc., where the voter turnout is below 50 per cent.
Because more than 50 per cent of voters have rejected this election by not voting? If so, on what basis a candidate will be elected from this election is also a matter of wonder.