Final showdown: Last Phase of voting for 57 LS seats today

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Voting will be held on Saturday in the seventh and final phase of polling on 57 Lok Sabha seats across seven states and one Union Territory.

The final phase of polling will bring the curtains down on the marathon poll process that stretched for nearly two months and witnessed extreme weather conditions of sweltering heat waves in many parts of the poll-bound constituencies in the country.

Today’s polling will be held for all of Punjab’s 13 seats, four in Himachal Pradesh, 13 in UP, nine in West Bengal, eight in Bihar, six in Odisha, three in Jharkhand and one in UT of Chandigarh. This polling cycle has a number of heavyweights in the fray with the focus remaining on Prime Minister Narendra Modi who is contesting for the third time in a row from Varanasi.

Polling for the remaining 42 Assembly constituencies of Odisha and bypolls to six Assembly seats in Himachal Pradesh will also take place simultaneously on June 1.