Contestants include Piyush Goyal, Smriti Irani, Rajnath Singh, and Rahul Gandhi?
On Monday, 20 May 2024, Voters from 49 constituencies across six states and two Union Territories will vote in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls.
Polling will be held for five parliamentary seats in Bihar, Jharkhand (3), Maharashtra (13), Odisha (5), Uttar Pradesh (14), West Bengal (7) and two Union Territories - Jammu and Kashmir (1) and Ladakh (1).
Key candidates contesting in the fifth phase are Union Ministers Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Smriti Irani (Amethi), Rajnath Singh (Lucknow), and many more ministers.
From the Opposite party, Congress's Rahul Gandhi is defending his mother Sonia Gandhi's bastion Raebareli, former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister Omar Abdullah is fighting from Baramulla, RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's daughter Rohini Acharya is contesting from Saran, while Shiv Sena-UBT leader and Arvind Sawant is contesting from Mumbai South.
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