New Delhi: Polling began on Sunday morning for 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of Lok Sabha polls with Union ministers Radha Mohan Singh, Maneka Gandhi, Harsh Vardhan, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Congress leaders Digvijay Singh among several prominent faces in the fray. Elections are being held in 10 seats in Haryana, 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, eights constituencies each in Bihar, seven seats in Delhi, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal and four in Jharkhand.

West Bengal: Two BJP workers Ananta Guchait & Ranjit Maity shot at last night in Bhagabanpur, East Medinipur. Both the injured admitted to hospital. More details awaited.

— ANI (@ANI) May 12, 2019

Over 10.17 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise to decide the fate of 979 candidates. The Election Commission has set up over 1.13 lakh polling stations for smooth conduct of the polls. The elections in this phase are seen as a big test for the BJP which had won 45 of these seats in 2014, with the Trinamool Congress bagging 8, the Congress two and the Samajwadi Party and the LJP one seat each among others. Prominent candidates in the fray in Delhi include veteran Congress leader Sheila Dikshit, Olympian boxer Vijender Singh, Union minister Harsh Vardhan, Atishi from AAP and her BJP rival cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir. The Bhopal seat in Madhya Pradesh is witnessing an interesting contest between senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh and BJP nominee Pragya Singh Thakur.