Ahmedabad, 16 April 2014

121 Lok Sabha seats and 79 assembly seats will witness polling on Thursday, 17th of April. This is the phase of polling that covers highest number of seats.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 44 of these seats in 2009 and the Congress 37.

Karnataka, which gave the BJP its first government in the south, will see voting for all its 28 seats in one go.

The next biggest tranche of seats, 20, will be decided in Rajasthan.

Maharashtra will see voting in 19 seats across the arid, backward region of Marathwada, the sugar-rich belt in the western part of the state and a part of coastal Konkan.

In Uttar Pradesh, voting will be held in 11 constituencies.

Former union minister and BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi is trying her luck for the seventh time in a Lok Sabha contest, from Pilibhit.

In Odisha 11 seats including capital Bhubaneswar will go to poll.

In Madhya Pradesh, polling will be held for 10 seats including capital Bhopal and Gwalior.

In Bihar, voting will be for 7 seats.

Polling gets off the ground in West Bengal, covering four constituencies including Darjeeling from where football star Bhaichung Bhutia is the Trinamool Congress candidate.

In Maoist-hit Chhattisgarh, three seats go to polls.

In Jharkhand, another state affected by Maoist violence, polling will be held for six seats including capital Ranchi and steel hub Jamshedpur.

In Jammu and Kashmir, Udhampur goes to polls. Union health minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is contesting from the seat.

In Manipur, voting for the Inner Manipur seat will complete the polling process in the state. Congress holds both seats in the state.

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