Prime Minister Narendra Modi met his mother at her house in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar on Tuesday before casting his vote in Ahmedabad, which is polling in the third phase of the Lok Sabha election.
Photographs tweeted by news agency ANI showed the Prime Minister touching nearly 99-year-old Heeraben Patel’s feet as she blesses him. Modi also met people outside his mother’s house in Gandhinagar before getting in the house.
The Prime Minister will cast his vote at the polling booth in Ahmedabad’s Nishan Higher Secondary School in Ranip area of the city. The Bharatiya Janata Party’s president and its candidate from Gandhinagar parliamentary constituency Amit Shah was also seen near the polling booth.
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Shah is up against the Congress’ three-term legislator CJ Chavda in Gandhinagar, Gujarat’s capital.
All the 26 parliamentary constituencies in Prime Minister Modi’s home state of Gujarat is polling in the third phase of ongoing general elections and the contest is primarily between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress. The BJP won all 26 seats in 2014.
The third phase of the Lok Sabha elections will see as many as 117 seats across 15 states and two Union territories going to vote on April 23. Among the seats will be a solitary seat from Tripura, Tripura East, where elections were delayed by one phase due to security reasons.
All the 20 seats in Kerala, 14 each in Maharashtra and Karnataka, ten in Uttar Pradesh, seven in Chhattisgarh, six in Odisha, five each in Bihar and West Bengal, four in Assam, two in Goa, one each in Jammu and Kashmir, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Daman and Diu and Tripura are also voting.
Counting of votes will be held on May 23.
| Constituency | Sitting MP |
| Assam | |
|---|---|
| Dhubri | Badruddin Ajmal, AIUDF |
| Kokrajhar | Naba Kumar Sarania, IND |
| Barpeta | Sirajuddin Ajmal, AIUDF |
| Gauhati | Bijoya Chakravarty, BJP |
| Bihar | |
| Jhanjharpur | Birendra Kumar Choudhary, BJP |
| Supaul | Ranjeet Ranjan, Congress |
| Araria | Sarfaraz Alam, RJD |
| Madhepura | Pappu Yadav, RJD |
| Khagaria | Mehboob Ali Kaiser, LJP |
| Chhattisgarh | |
| Surguja | Kamalbhan Singh Marabi, BJP |
| Raigarh | Vishnu Deo Sai, BJP |
| Janjgir-Champa | Kamla Patle, BJP |
| Korba | Banshilal Mahto, BJP |
| Bilaspur | Lakhan Lal Sahu, BJP |
| Durg | Tamradhwaj Sahu, Congress |
| Raipur | Ramesh Bais, BJP |
| Goa | |
| North Goa | Shripad Yesso Naik, Bharatiya Janata Party |
| South Goa | Narendra Keshav Sawaikar, BJP |
| Gujarat | |
| Kachchh | Vinod Lakhamashi Chavda, BJP |
| Banaskantha | Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary, BJP |
| Patan | Liladharbhai Vaghela, BJP |
| Mahesana | Jayshreeben Kanubha Patel, BJP |
| Sabarkantha | Dipsinh Shankarsinh Rathod, BJP |
| Gandhinagar | LK Advani, BJP |
| Ahmedabad East | Paresh Rawal, BJP |
| Ahmedabad West | Kirit Premjibhai Solanki, BJP |
| Surendranagar | Devjibhai Govindbhai Fatepara, BJP |
| Rajkot | Mohanbhai Kundariya, BJP |
| Porbandar | Vitthalbhai Hansrajbhai Radadiya, BJP |
| Jamnagar | Poonamben Hematbhai Maadam, BJP |
| Junagadh | Chudasama Rajeshbhai Naranbhai, BJP |
| Amreli | Naranbhai Bhikhabhai Kachhadiya, BJP |
| Bhavnagar | Dr Bharatiben Dhirubhai Shiyal, BJP |
| Anand | Dilip M Patel, BJP |
| Kheda | Devusinh Chauhan, BJP |
| Panchmahal | Prabhatsinh Pratapsinh Chauhan, BJP |
| Dahod | Jaswantsinh Sumanbhai Bhabhor, BJP |
| Vadodara | Ranjanben Dhananjay Bhatt , BJP (won bypoll) |
| Chhota Udaipur | Ramsinh Rathwa, BJP |
| Bharuch | Mansukhbhai Dhanjibhai Vasava, BJP |
| Bardoli | Prabhubhai Nagarbhai Vasava, BJP |
| Surat | Darshana Vikram Jardosh, BJP |
| Navsari | CR Patil, BJP |
| Valsad | KC Patel, BJP |
| Jammu and Kashmir | |
| Anantnag | Vacant |
| Karnataka | |
| Chikkodi | Prakash Hukkeri, Congress |
| Belgaum | Angadi Suresh Channabasappa, BJP |
| Bagalkot | Gaddigoudar Parvatagouda Chandanagouda, BJP |
| Bijapur | Ramesh Jigajinagi, BJP |
| Gulbarga | Mallikarjun Kharge, Congressha |
| Raichur | BV Nayak, Congress |
| Bidar | Bhagwanth Kuba, BJP |
| Koppal | Karadi Sanganna Amarappa, BJP |
| Bellary | B. Sreeramulu, BJP |
| Haveri | Udasi Shivakumar Channabasappai, BJP |
| Dharwad | Pralhad Joshi, BJP |
| Uttara Kannada | Ananthkumar Hegde, BJP |
| Davanagere | |
| Shimoga | BS Yeddyurappa, BJP |
| Constituency | Sitting MP |
| Kerala | |
|---|---|
| Kasaragod | P Karunakaran, CPI(M) |
| Kannur | PK Srieemathi, CPI(M) |
| Vadakara | Mullappally Ramachandran, INC |
| Wayanad | |
| Kozhikode | Vacant after sitting MP MI Shavas of Congress died in 2016 |
| Malappuram | E. Ahamed, IUML |
| Ponnani | ET Mohammed Basheer, IUML |
| Palakkad | MB Rajesh, CPI(M) |
| Alathur | P.K.Biju, CPI(M) |
| Thrissur | C. N. Jayadevan, CPI |
| Chalakudy | Innocent, Independent |
| Ernakulam | KV Thomas, Congress |
| Idukki | dv. Joice George, Independent |
| Kottayam | Jose K. Mani, Kerala Congress (M) |
| Alappuzha | KC Venugopal, Congress |
| Mavelikkara | Kodikunnil Suresh, Congress |
| Pathanamthitta | Anto Antony, Congress |
| Kollam | NK Premachandran, RSP |
| Attingal | A Sampath, CPI(M) |
| Thiruvananthapuram | Shashi Tharoor, Congress |
| Maharashtra | |
| Jalgaon | A.T. Nana Patil, BJP |
| Raver | Khadase Raksha Nikhil, BJP |
| Jalna | Danve Raosaheb Dadarao, BJP |
| Aurangabad | Sushil Kumar Singh, BJP |
| Raigad | Anant Geete, Shiv Sena |
| Pune | Anil Shirole, BJP |
| Baramati | Supriya Sule, NCP |
| Ahmednagar | Gandhi Dilipkumar Mansukhlal, BJP |
| Madha | ohite Patil Vijaysinh Shankarrao, Nationalist Congress Party |
| Sangli | Sanjaykaka Patil, BJP |
| Satara | Udayanraje Pratapsinha Bhonsale, NCP |
| Ratnagiri-Sindhudurg | Vinayak Bhaurao Raut, Shiv Sena |
| Kolhapur | Dhananjay Bhimrao Mahadik, NCP |
| Hatkanangle | Raju Shetty, Swabhimani Paksha |
| Odisha | |
| Sambalpur | Nagendra Kumar Pradhan, BJD |
| Keonjhar | Sakuntala Laguri, BJD |
| Dhenkanal | Tathagata Satpathy, BJD |
| Cuttack | Bhartuhari Mahatab, BJD |
| Puri | Pinaki Misra, BJD |
| Bhubaneswar | Prasanna Kumar Patasani, BJD |
| Uttar Pradesh | |
| Moradabad | Kunwar Sarvesh Kumar, BJP |
| Rampur | Nepal Singh, BJP |
| Sambhal | Satyapal Singh, BJP |
| Firozabad | Akshay Yadav, SP |
| Mainpuri | Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, SP |
| Etah | Rajveer Singh, BJP |
| Badaun | Dharmendra Yadav, SP |
| Aonla | Dharmendra Kumar, BJP |
| Bareilly | Santosh Kumar Gangwar, BJP |
| Pilibhit | Maneka Gandhi, BJP |
| West Bengal | |
| Balurghat | Arpita Ghosh, Trinamool Congress |
| Maldaha Uttar | Mausam Noor, Congress |
| Maldaha Dakshin | Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury, Congress |
| Jangipur | Abhijit Mukherjee, Congress |
| Murshidabad | Badaruddoza Khan, CPI(M) |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | |
| Dadra and Nagar Haveli | Natubhai Gomanbhai Patel, BJP |
| Daman and Diu | |
| Daman and Diu | Lalubhai Patel, BJP |
| Tripura | |
| East Tripura | Jitendra Choudhury, CPI(M) |
First Published: Apr 23, 2019 08:23 IST
