Campaigning ends for 13 seats in 5th phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 in Maha

Highenergy campaigning ahead of fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 including rallies and roadshows ended at 6 pm on Saturday for 13 Lok Sabha seats in North Maharashtra and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Polling for these seats will take place on May 20 the final round of the states general electionsIn the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 246 crore voters are eligible to vote for 264 candidatesUnion ministers and BJP leaders Piyush Goyal Mumbai North Bharati Pawar Dindori and Kapil Patil Bhiwandi are among the leading candidates Other noteworthy candidates include Shiv Sena leader Shrikant Shinde Kalyan Mumbai Congress chairman Varsha Gaikwad and BJP advocate Ujjwal Nikam who will run in Mumbai North CentralThe constituencies up for votes in fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 are Dhule Nashik Thane Palghar Mumbai North Mumbai North West Mumbai North East Mumbai South Central and Mumbai SouthThane Palghar and Mumbai which account for ten of the 13 seats are part of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region MMR one of the countrys most densely populated districts Voting for the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024 will take place from 7 am to 6 pm at 24553 polling stationsThere are 24669544 registered voters including 13138526 men 11528278 women and 2740 of the third genderThe race in Dhule is between the BJP and the Congress In Dindori the BJP is pitted against Sharad Pawars NCP In Nashik Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shindes Shiv Sena and Uddhav Thackerays Shiv Sena UBT are competingPalghars race is between the BJP and Sena UBT whereas Bhiwandis primary challengers are the BJP and the NCP Thane and Kalyan both on Chief Minister Shindes own turf are prestige struggles for him His close aide Naresh Mhaske and his son Shrikant Shinde are the Sena contenders for Thane and Kalyan respectivelyThackerays party has fielded candidates in Mumbai South Mumbai South Central Mumbai North East and Mumbai North West as part of a seatsharing deal with Maha Vikas Aghadi partners the NCP and Congress Congress candidates are running in both Mumbai North Central and Mumbai NorthOn Wednesday Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned in Kalyan and Dindori for the candidates of the BJPShiv SenaNCP Mahayuti coalition as well as holding a roadshow in northeast Mumbai Modi returned to Mumbai on Friday to address a rally at Shivaji Park On the same day the opposition group INDIA organised a rally at the Bandra Kurla Complex which was attended by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge Uddhav Thackeray Sharad Pawar and Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convener Arvind KejriwalOn the final day of campaigning Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath hosted public rallies in Malegaon Nashik district and Palghar to support Mahayuti candidates