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LS polls 2014: Voting for 121 seats today, Jaswant, Shinde, Nilekani, Deve Gowda's fate at stake

New Delhi:  The most important phase of 16th Lok Sabha elections gets under  way today with polling to take place for 121 seats across 12 states of India.  Prominent among  the 1,769 candidates  whose political

Ranchi: Six constituencies will go to the polls  today in second of the three-phased Lok Sabha election in Jharkhand. The six seats are Giridih, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Singhbhum (ST), Khunti (ST) and Hazaribagh. Jharkhand has 14 Lok Sabha seats.

Among 106 candidates, prominent are Lok Sabha Deputy Speaker Karia Munda of BJP, Jayant Sinha, son of Jaswant Sinha, former Team India Manager Amitabh Chowdhury of JVM(P), former deputy chief minister, Suresh Mahato of Ajsu party and former Union minister Subodh Kant Sahay of Congress.

Imphal: Manipur will hold the second and last phase of Lok Sabha election today in the Inner Manipur constituency, where eight candidates are in the fray.

The Congress has held the prestigious seat for 10 years. Among the candidates are sitting Congress MP Th Meinya, former Manipur University Professor R K Ranjan (BJP), former Manipur Rifles commandant S Manaobi (Trinamool Congress), senior CPI leader M Nara and the lone woman candidate O Indira (Independent).