Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) chief Moh Bhagwat on Friday exercised his franchise at a polling booth in Nagpur, Maharashtra during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat showed his inked finger after casting his vote and urged people to vote. To exercise his franchise, he said, "Voting is our duty, it is right. There should be 100 per cent voting. I have cast my vote."Voting for the first phase of Lok Sabha elections 2024 began at 7 am on Friday in 102 parliamentary constituencies across 21 states and union territories. Voting will end at 6 pm in Maharashtra, the second-largest state after Uttar Pradesh (80), which has 543 The Lok Sabha, which contributes 48 seats, will witness a fierce competition between the two major state alliances – Mahayuti (Bharatiya Janata Party, Shiv Sena, and Nationalist Congress Party) and Maha Vikas Aghadi (Congress, Shiv Sena (UBT), and The five Lok Sabha seats of NCP (SP) include Chandrapur, Bhandara-Gondiya, Gadchiroli-Chimur Ramtek and Nagpur, which Nitin Gadkari won with an overwhelming vote share of 55.7 per cent, the current Maharashtra Congress President. Nana Patole by a margin of 2,16,009 votes He defeated Congress leader Vilas Muttemwar by a margin of 2,84,828 votes In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Chandrapur in Maharashtra is the only seat out of the total 48 seats in the state. Which Congress managed to win, but this time the fight may not be easy for BJP. They left no stone unturned to win back that constituency and fielded a Minister of State from there. On the Congress side, Pratibha Dhanorkar, wife of Suresh alias Bal Dhanorkar, who died last year, is in the fray, while the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is in the fray.The opportunity has been given to Sudhir Mungantiwar, the state forest and cultural affairs minister, in the first phase of the general elections to be held on April 19. Ramtek is the only seat being contested by the Shinde-led Sena, a constituent of the Maha Vikas Aghadi. Is. Gadchiroli-Chimur, Maharashtra's largest Lok Sabha constituency by area and with a vast area affected by Naxalite violence, has fielded Shyamkumar Daulat Barv from Ramtek. The Congress party has fielded Namdev Dasaram Kirsan against BJP's Ashok Mahadevrao Nete. Has landed in. Nete ​​is the current Member of Parliament (MP), who won the Lok Sabha elections from the same constituency for two consecutive terms in 2014 and 2019. Nete ​​was defeated by Congress's Marotrao Kowase in the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. But Nete had won the state assembly elections.Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh, from the Gadchiroli seat twice in 1999 and 2004. In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJP in alliance with the undivided Shiv Sena won 23 of the 25 seats it contested. Elections will be held in five phases for 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra.Counting of votes will take place on June 4.