Several top leaders are in the fray in the penultimate round of Lok Sabha polls in 64 constituencies tomorrow spread across 7 states. Of these, 25 seats are Andhra Pradesh, 15 in Uttar Pradesh, 7 in Bihar, 6 in West Bengal, 5 in Uttarakhand, and 2 in Jammu and Kahsmir, 4 in Himachal Pradesh. 175 assembly constituencies in the seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh will also go to the polls for the first time after the creation of Telengana.

Among those, whose political fate to be sealed tomorrow, are Rahul Gandhi, his cousin Varun, Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma, cricketer-turned-politician Md. Kaif, all in UP, and Ram Vilas Paswan, Rabri Devi and Rajiv Pratap Rudy,all in Bihar. HimachalPradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh's wife Pratibha, Anurag Thakur, sitting MP and son of former Chief Minster Prem Kumar Dhumal, Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat's wife Renuka, former Union Ministers D Purandeshwari, V Kishore Chandra Deo and M M Pallam Raju are the other prominant candidates in the fray.

In West Bengal, the Left parties, which had won all the six seats going to polls tomorrow, face a stiff challenge from the ruling Trinamool Congress.
With elections in two constituencies –Baramulla and Ladakh–in Jammu and Kashmir, polling will be completed in all the seven constituencies in the state tomorrow.

In Andhra Pradedsh, Seemandhra, comprising the areas of Rayalaseema and coastal Andhra accounting for 25 seats, will vote tomorrow for both Lok Sabha and Assembly. Stakes are high for TDP leader Chandrababu Naidu and YSR Congress leader Jagan Mohan Reddy in the assemble elections to 175 seats there, Polling will begin at 7 am and continue till 6 p.m. except in sensitive pockets in Bihar where it will end at 4 p.m. In some areas in 10 left wing extremist affected Assembly segments in Seemandhra region of Andhra Pradesh, polling will end at 4 p.m, while in eight other Assembly constituencies, it will end at 5 p.m. Election Authorities have made elaborate arrangements for free and fair polling.