Lok Sabha elections phase V: The key candidates in the fray

The fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections is seeing many big names in the fray. While the fate of Union Ministers including Jyotiraditya Scindia, Sushil Kumar Shinde and Sachin Pilot will be sealed in the biggest phase on Thursday, there are also big names like Infosys co-founder Nandan Nilekani, former Karnataka CM BS Yeddyurappa and Lalu Prasad's daughter Misa Bharti in the fray. Following is the list of key candidates in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha elections:

KARNATAKA

Nandan Nilekani v/s Ananthkumar - Bangalore South

HD Deve Gowda - Hassan

BS Yeddyurappa - Shimoga

B Sriramulu - Bellary

BIHAR

Shatrughan Sinha vs Kunal Singh Yadav in Patna Sahib

Misa Bharti from Patliputra

Ashish Ranjan Sinha (Congress) from Nalanda

JHARKHAND

Subodh Kant Sahay vs Amitabh Choudhary vs Ram Tahal Choudhary in Ranchi

Ajay Kumar vs Dineshanand Goswami in Jamshedpur

Jayant Sinha from Hazaribagh

MADHYA PRADESH

Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from Guna

Narendra Singh Tomar (BJP) from Gwalior

Rachna Dhingra (AAP) vs Alok Sanjar (BJP) in Bhopal

MAHARASHTRA

Nanded - Ashok Chavan (Congress)

Gopinath Munde(BJP ) - Bheed

Supriya Sule (NCP)- Baramati

Sushil Kumar Shinde (Congress) - Solapur

Pune - Vishwajit Kadam - (Congress)

RAJASTHAN

Barmer - Jaswant Singh (Independent) v/s Colonel Sona Ram of BJP

Ajmer - Sachin Pilot of Congress

Jaipur rural - Rajyavardhan Rathore vs CP JOSHI

Sawai Madhopur - MD Azaruddin

Chitoragarh - Dr. Girija Vyas

CHHATTISGARH

Ajit Jogi from Mahasamund

Abhishek Singh from Rajnadgaon

West Bengal

Baichung Bhutia - TMC - Darjeeling

JAMMU & KASHMIR

Union Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad from Udhampur-Doda

ODISHA

Kendrapara - Jay Panda - BJD

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