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

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

Polling begins at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm except in some sensitive areas in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh where it will end at 4 pm. In some other areas in Andhra Pradesh, polling will end at 5 pm.

Out of the constituencies where polling is underway today, 26 are in Gujarat, 17 in Telangana region in Andhra Pradesh, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, all 13 constituencies in Punjab, 9 in West Bengal, 7 in Bihar and one each in Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.

Prominent candidates whose fate will be deciced today are Sonia Gandhi, Madhusudan Mistry, Capt Amarinder Singh, Sriprakash Jaiswal and Shankarsinh Vaghela all Congress, Narendra Modi, L.K. Advani, Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Murli Manohar Joshi, and Uma Bharti of BJP, Sharad Yadav of JDU and Farooq Abdullah of National Conference.