More than 2,700 political parties are offering their candidates in the elections which started yesterday.
Elections are being held in 7 phases over the next month and a half in different states in India.
Let’s take a look at the top political leaders heading into the world’s biggest election battle.
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 The holder has the number of Home Minister Amit Shah , who is contesting the elections 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 elections from Dangal.
Next is the representative of the opposition and the leader of the Indian National Congress, Rahul Gandhi, while his mother Sonia Gandhi is not contesting the elections this time.
Other important leaders of the Indian National Congress include Seshi Tharoor, KC Venugopal, DK Suresh, who are contesting the elections this year.
National Congress Party’s Supriya Swale, Samajwadi Party’s Dimple Yadav, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s (DMK’s) Dayandhi Maran and Azad Samaj Party’s Chandrashekhar Azad are among the key leaders who will contest the polls starting tomorrow
