Stars Hema Malini & Arun Govil Prominent BJP Faces In Phase 2 Of Lok Sabha Elections 2024

New Delhi: The second phase of Lok Sabha polls 2024 will begin on Friday with eight constituencies of Uttar Pradesh witnessing a multi-cornered contest.

These are – Amroha, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, and Mathura.

Among the 91 candidates contesting are prominent ones including BJP’s Hema Malini, who is seeking a third term from Mathura, and Arun Govil, who played the role of Lord Rama in the famed TV serial Ramayan. He is contesting from his native place Meerut on a BJP ticket.

Danish Ali from Congress is contesting from Amroha and BJP’s Atul Garg from Ghaziabad. Incumbent MP Mahesh Sharma of the BJP is contesting again from Gautam Buddha Nagar, bordering Delhi.

The campaigning for the second phase ended on Wednesday evening with leaders of all the major political parties criss-crossing the constituencies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi led the BJP’s campaign in the second phase with Home Minister Amit Shah, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Akhilesh Yadav led the campaign for the Samajwadi Party (SP). Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, BSP president Mayawati, and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Singh also led a campaign trail for these constituencies during the past couple of days.

There are 1.67 crore voters in these eight Lok Sabha constituencies, out of which 90.11 lakh are male voters, 77.38 lakh are female voters and 787 are of the third gender. There are 7,797 polling stations and 17,677 polling booths in these constituencies.

The first phase of the elections held last Friday for 102 seats across 21 states and Union Territories saw a voter turnout of around 65.5%.