TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ The Bharatiya Janata Party will look to defend 32 of the 91 seats in 18 states and two union territories for which voting began Thursday morning in the first phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha polls in which five Union ministers are key contestants. The Congress is hoping to defend seven seats that it won in 2014 and is looking for major gains in Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh.
Voting is also underway in 175 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, 32 in Sikkim, 57 in Arunachal Pradesh and 28 seats in Odisha. Polling in all the Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh (25), Telangana (17), Uttarakhand (5), Meghalaya (2) and Arunachal Pradesh (2) besides lone seats in Mizoram, Tripura, Manipur, Nagaland, Sikkim, Andaman and Nicobar, and Lakshadweep is being held. Eight seats in Uttar Pradesh, seven in Maharashtra, six in Bihar, five in Assam, four in Odisha, two each in Jammu and Kashmir and West Bengal and one seat in Chhattisgarh are also going to polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking another term in power, focusing his election campaign on national security, farm revival and job creation. The ruling party has made a slew of promises including expeditious construction of Ram Temple and scrapping Article 370 that gives special status to Jammu and Kashmir. Seeking to wrest power from the BJP, the Congress has promised to roll out the Nyay scheme to provide a minimum basic income of Rs. 72,000 a year for three years to the poorest strata.
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