New Delhi: The campaign for the May 13 elections in 96 Lok Sabha constituencies across 10 states and Union territories ended on Saturday evening, including all seats in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where assembly elections are also being held simultaneously. Have been.

In the fourth phase of Lok Sabha elections, issues like reservation, appeasement politics, corruption and jobs dominate the battle of statements.

Prominent candidates in the fray include Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav (Kannauj, UP), Union ministers Giriraj Singh (Begusarai, Bihar), Nityanand Rai (Ujiarpur, Bihar), Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Choudhary (Behrampur, West Bengal), BJP's Pankaja Are. Munde (Beed, Maharashtra), AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi (Hyderabad, Telangana) and Andhra Pradesh Congress president Y Sharmila (Cuddapah). Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra Teni, whose son is an accused in the 2020 Lakhimpur Kheri violence case, in Kheri (UP) While TMC's Mahua Moitra, who was expelled from the Lok Sabha in the wake of cash-for-query allegations, is seeking re-election from Krishnanagar in West Bengal.On Monday, voting will be held on 17 Lok Sabha seats of Telangana, 25 of Andhra Pradesh, 13 of Uttar Pradesh, five of Bihar, four of Jharkhand, eight of Madhya Pradesh, 11 of Maharashtra, four of Odisha, eight of West Bengal. One is Jammu and Kashmir.

Of these 96 seats, more than 40 have MPs from the BJP-led NDA. Simultaneous voting will be held on 175 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, which is seeing a triangular contest, with the YSRC, the Congress-led INDI block and the NDA. Which includes BJP, Chandrababu Naidu led TDP and Pava Kalyan led Jana Sena Party (JSP). ,

In the campaign, BJP leaders led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the Congress over Rahul Gandhi's close aide Sam Pitroda's remarks on the "skin colour" "race" of Indians. He accused the India Bloc parties of being "anti-Hindu" and engaging in "looting, appeasement" and "dynastic politics".The Congress targeted the BJP over Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "abundance of money" comment and continued its aggressive stance on the issues of protecting the Constitution and reservation. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday in Unnao, Kannauj and Kanpur Addressed election rallies in Kannauj, while Samajwadi Party (SP) organized a public contact program in Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency.

Of the 13 electoral seats, in Kannauj there is a tough fight between SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and sitting BJP MP Subrata Pathak, while in Unnao, sitting BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj is facing SP's Annu Tandon.

Prime Minister Modi on Wednesday accused the Congress of making 'deals' with industrialists Ambani and Adani and asked whether the party has received a 'quick consignment' of black money from them so that its leader Rahul Gandhi stops 'misusing' them. Hitting back, Gandhi challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get the CBI or ED investigated whether Adani and Ambani had sent black money to his party.,

The same day, Pitroda resigned as president of the Indian Overseas Congress after his controversial comments prompted the BJP to label the Congress "racist" and left it scrambling to control the damage.

Criticizing the Congress and the India faction, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in May said that Muslims now understand that the Congress and the India faction are using them as pawns, he said after seeing the developments made by the BJP. The community is distancing itself from him. On Friday, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said a storm from the Indian faction is coming in Uttar Pradesh, and asserted that Narendra Modi will not be able to reach the post of prime minister this time.

Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav addressed joint rallies in Kannauj and Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, where both the parties are contesting the elections as allies. Under the seat-sharing agreement, the Congress is contesting 17 of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state.In his Kanpur address, Gandhi claimed that the Congress will win at least 50 seats in UP. The SP chief on Saturday termed the ongoing Lok Sabha elections as a "national movement" to protect the interests of the Constitution and reservations.

On 4 May, Modi held a road show in Kanpur to campaign for BJP candidates from Kanpur and Akbarpur constituencies.

The campaign for the by-election to Dadraul assembly seat in Shahjahanpur district, which fell vacant after the death of BJP MLA Manvendra Singh on January 5, also ended. The ruling YSRCP in Andhra Pradesh is contesting all 175 assembly seats and 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.Under the seat-sharing agreement between the NDA allies, TDP was allotted 14 assembly and 17 Lok Sabha constituencies, while the BJP will contest six Lok Sabha and 10 assembly seats.

Janasena will contest two Lok Sabha and 21 assembly seats. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, YSRCP had won 22 seats, while TDP was reduced to just 3 seats.

YSRCP president and Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy (Pulivendla), TD supremo N Chandrababu Naidu (Kuppam) and Janasena chief and actor Pawan Kalya (Pithapuram), among others, are in the race for the assembly elections.

Leaders of all political parties made a last-ditch effort to woo voters in the Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency, where 24 candidates are in the fray.The National Conference has fielded influential Shia leader Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi, while youth leader Waheed Parra is contesting on the Peoples Democratic Party ticket. Apni Party has fielded Ashraf Mir.

In Bihar, three seats are currently held by the BJP and the party is optimistic after Prime Minister Modi's rallies in Darbhanga and Munger.

Voting has ended on 21 out of 29 seats in Madhya Pradesh in the first three phases of general elections. Madhya Pradesh's eight constituencies are spread across 64 assembly constituencies in 15 districts of the state's Malwa-Neema region, considered a BJP stronghold. In Indore, Congress candidate Akshay Bam withdrew his nomination at the last minute and saffron Joining the party, setting the stage for a one-sided contest for BJP's Shankar Lalwani, who won by nearly 5.4 lakh votes in 2019, the Congress urged voters to hit NOTA.

Voting for the next three phases is on May 20, May 25 and June 1.Counting of votes is on June 4.