More than 2,700 political parties put up their candidates in the elections that started yesterday.
Elections are being held in 7 phases over the next month and a half in various states of India.
Let’s take a look at the top political leaders going into the biggest election battle in the world.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is affiliated with the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is leading the race for power, contesting from UP, followed by his own party’s election from Gujarat.
BJP leaders Rajnath Singh (Lakhanna), Smriti Irani (Amethi), Piyush Goyal (Mumbai North), Nitin Gadkari (Nagpur), Suresh Gopi (Kerila), Tejaswi Surya (Bengaluru) are contesting the election from Dangal.
Next is the representative of the opposition and the leader of the Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi, while his mother Sonia Gandhi will not participate in the election this time.
Other important leaders of the Indian National Congress include Seshi Tharoor, KC Venugopal, DK Suresh, who contested this year’s elections.
National Congress Party’s Supriya Swale, Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK) Dayandhi Maran and Azad Samaj Party’s Chandrashekhar Azad are among the top leaders who will contest the polls from tomorrow.
