Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates| 'Difficult For Them To Even Cross 300 Seats,' Says Shashi Tharoor

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live Updates: The political parties have now shifted their focus towards the final phase of voting to be held on June 1.

Lok Sabha Elections 2024 Live: It's time for the second-last phase to kick off! Campaigning ended for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections on Thursday in which 58 constituencies spread across eight states and a UT will go to the polls on Saturday. Voting will take place on all seven Lok Sabha seats of Delhi and Haryana which BJP clean-sweeped in the 2019 polls.

Like other phases, this round of elections will also see some key contests across states. A total of 889 candidates are in the fray from the 58 Lok Sabha constituencies in this phase. The sixth phase includes eight seats in Bihar, all 10 seats in Haryana, one seat in Jammu and Kashmir, four in Jharkhand, all seven seats in Delhi, six in Odisha, 14 in Uttar Pradesh and eight in West Bengal. Forty-two assembly constituencies in Odisha are also going for polls in the third phase of Assembly elections being held in the state simultaneously with the Lok Sabha elections on May 25.

Given the voting for the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 25, security has been beefed up in the national capital. As the mercury is on a constant rise in the national capital, the Additional DCP said that it is expected that the temperature might rise to 45 degrees Celsius.

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24 May 2024

23:22 IST

Lok Sabha Election 2024: Election Officer Briefs Ahead Of Phase 6 

Chief Election Officer Navdeep Rinwa intersected with the media today ahead of phase 6 of Lok Sabha Polls 2024.

"Tomorrow, the sixth phase of the Lok Sabha polls will be held. Voting will be conducted in a total of 14 Lok Sabha constituencies... 2192 sector magistrates, 282 zonal magistrates, 24 static magistrates and police forces have been appointed to maintain law and order... I appeal to all the voters to exercise their right to vote... I hope more voters will come out tomorrow and the upcoming seventh phase of polling... All the arrangements have been made," he said.

21:33 IST

Lok Sabha Election 2024: 'Difficult For Them To Even Cross 300 Seats,' Says Shashi Tharoor 

Congress leader and Thiruvananthapuram candidate Shashi Tharoor hits out at BJP and said that people are upset over unemployment, and inflation. He further added that the Congress party will get good results this time.

"It will be difficult for them to even cross 300 seats...After 5 phases of elections, we are seeing that people are upset with the government because there is unemployment, inflation... Congress will be in a better position than before. We will get good results in the North also," he said.