Among the seats going to polls, 13 are in Maharashtra, 14 in Uttar Pradesh, seven in West Bengal, five in Bihar, three in Jharkhand, five in Odisha, one in J-K and the lone seat in Ladakh.

As many as 223 candidates, including 16 women, are left in the contest for 10 parliamentary seats in the state. Two Union ministers -- Rao Inderjit Singh and Krishan Pal Gurjar -- and Congress ...

With 800 women candidates in the fray, this also led to a decline in the number of seats having no women candidate to its ...