new delhi for parties second phase of ls elections will be crucial in determining their political futuremaharashtra 25 seatspawar balance shiftsthe temperature as well as the poll tempo has risen steadily during the runup to the second phase of voting in maharashtra scheduled for april 23 sugarrich western maharashtra khandesh north maharashtra and parts of marathwada will poll on thursday to decide the fate of candidates in 25 seats the old war horses in the running are ncp president sharad pawar congresss sushil kumar shinde and bjps gopinath mundecampaigning which had reached a crescendo ended tuesday with pawar rushing to baramati to address a last meeting for his daughter supriya sule congress president sonia gandhi too stepped up her attack on shiv senabjp accusing them of divisive politics while uddhav thackeray led the sena campaign munde concentrated on beed where he is a candidate while state bjp chief nitin gadkari and general secretary vinod tawade ran the partys campaign during the second phaseout of 48 maharashtra seats 25 will go to the polls on thursday of these 15 will see direct clashes between congressncp combine and shiv senabjp alliance seven constituencies will see triangular contests due to strong presence of either bsp or a rebel while three will witness quadrangular contests because of the bsp and more than one strong rebelthe pawar camp has been gungho ever since aiadmk leader jayalalitha declared her support for his bid for prime ministership he is testing his popularity by shifting from baramati to neighbouring madha in solapur union ministers sushil kumar shinde solapur and a r antulay raigad rpi athawale leader ramdas athawale shirdi former union ministers anant geete raigad and suresh prabhu ratnagirisindhudurg are other big cats on the huntjammu kashmir 1 seatno cakewalk for bjptwin issues of development and security dominated the electioneering in jks udhampur constituency where bjp is trying to wrest its traditional bastion from the congress buoyed by its gains in last years assembly elections in jammu region the saffron party is confident of pulling this one off congresss lal singh had defeated former union minister and threetime mp chaman lal gupta in 2004but its not going be a cakewalk for bjp as the congress is banking on its alliance with the national conference the congress is hoping that ncs muslim vote bank would rally round the party despite pdps presence in the fray parties like the panthers party which are also contesting on the projammu agenda could rock the bjps boat and eat into its votesorissa 11 seatswill it be hero or zeronaveen patnaik is the man to be watched as orissa conducts the second and final phase of lok sabha elections on thursday voting will take place in 11 lok sabha and 77 assembly seats all in the politically significant coastal orissa ten ls and 70 assembly seats went to polls in the first phase on april 16 the focus is on naveen because he took the decision of breaking his party