The political fortune of over 1,000 candidates will be decided at the hustings today.

Voting began today for the 7th phase of elections to 89 Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 7 states and two union territories.

Prominent among those in the fray are Sonia Gandhi, Narendra Modi, L.K.Advani, Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar Joshi, Madhusudan Mistry, Capt. Amarinder Singh, Sriprakash Jaiswal, Shankarsinh Vaghela, Uma Bharti, Farooq Abdullah, Jaipal Reddy and K. Chandrasekhar Rao.

Voting is also underway for 119 Assembly Constituencies in Andhra Pradesh simultaneously.