Lok Sabha elections 2024: Top candidates to watch out for in second phase

Voting for 89 seats across 13 states will be conducted for the second phase of the Lok Sabha election 2024 on Friday, April 26. The campaigning for Phase 2 ended on Wednesday, April 24. (Photo/Agencies)

In Phase 2 of the Lok Sabha elections, polling is scheduled in all 20 seats of Kerala, 14 of the 28 seats in Karnataka, 13 seats in Rajasthan, eight seats each in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, seven seats in Madhya Pradesh, five seats each in Assam and Bihar, three seats each in Chhattisgarh and West Bengal, and one seat each in Manipur, Tripura and Jammu and Kashmir. (Photo/Agencies)

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Rahul Gandhi of the Congress won from Wayanad with a massive margin of over 4.31 lakh votes – the highest margin in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Kerala. He is again contesting from Wayanad seat in 2024 elections. (Photo/Agencies)

Annie Raja of the Communist Party of India (CPI) has emerged as a strong contender for the Wayanad seat. She is fighting against Congress MP Rahul Gandhi. (Photo/Agencies)

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, a former UN diplomat and one of Kerala's most esteemed Congress figures, has consistently secured victory in the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala. He has won the seat in 2009, 2014, and 2019. (Photo/Agencies)

Union minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar has been fielded by the BJP in Thiruvananthapuram to challenge three time Congress MP Shashi Tharoor. (Photo/Agencies)

Hema Malini, who has served two terms as a Member of Parliament and previously held a position in the Rajya Sabha, has been representing the Mathura constituency for the BJP since 2014. With aspirations for a third consecutive term, she is preparing for the upcoming 2024 Lok Sabha elections. In this election, her main competition comes from Mukesh Dhangar of the Congress, who is a member of the All India Congress Committee (AICC). (Photo/Agencies)

Ravindra Singh Bhati, the 26-year-old Sheo MLA who is fighting as an Independent from Rajasthan's Barmer, India's second largest constituency by area, has evidently queered the poll pitch in the largely bipolar polity of Rajasthan. Bhati has become a formidable challenger to central minister and Barmer's BJP MP Kailash Choudhary, and Congress candidate Ummeda Ram. (Photo/Agencies)

Replacing long-serving three-time BJP MP Rajendra Agarwal, who has held the Meerut seat since 2004, Arun Govil is poised to compete against Sunita Verma of the Samajwadi Party and Devvrat Kumar Tyagi of the Bahujan Samaj Party in the Lok Sabha election 2024. (Photo/Agencies)