10.27% voter turnout has been recorded in phase 4 of Lok Sabha polls till 9am across 9 states.All major markets, including BSE, National Stock Exchange, forex and money markets are closed Monday due to elections in Mumbai.
NEW DELHI: The fourth phase of polling will take place in 72 constituencies across nine States amidst tight security on Monday.
In the first three phases, voting has been held in 302 Lok Sabha constituencies, and 168 more seats will go to polls in the last three phases.
Voting will take place in 17 seats in Maharashtra, 13 each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, eight in West Bengal, six each in Madhya Pradesh and Odisha, five in Bihar, three in Jharkhand and a part of Anantnag constituency in Jammu and Kashmir.
The BJP has high stakes in this phase. Of the 72 seats going to polls, it won 45 in 2014. Its allies won another 11 seats. The Congress’s tally was just two.
Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh will see the first round of polling. The sons of Chief Ministers of both States Ashok Gehlot’s son Vaibhav Gehlot and Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath will be tested.
This phase will bring elections to a close in Maharashtra and Odisha.Maharashtra is holding elections in 17 seats in the fourth round of the seven-phased general election on Monday.
In Odisha, where the state’s ruling BJD won all six seats, the BJP is making concerted efforts to bag a few seats.however, is the Begusarai seat which will witness an electrifying contest between the political Left and the Right with CPI debutant Kanhaiya Kumar taking on firebrand BJP leader Giriraj Singh.
The Congress has a good presence in at least three of the constituencies — Unnao (AnnuTandon), Farrukhabad (Salman Khurshid) and Kanpur (Sriprakash Jaiswal).
In West Bengal, all the eight seats, which are spread across four districts, will see a four-cornered contest between Trinamool Congress, BJP, Congress and the Left Front.A clash has broken between TMC workers and security personnel at polling booth number 199 in Asansol.
