focused their campaign on demonetisation gst and job losses the contest here is expected to be a fierce tussle for the support of over 435 lakh jat voters baghpat upsynonymous with the tallest jat leader chaudhary charan singh baghpat has ditched the family only twice in the past 11 lok sabha elections the last time being the 2014 polls when his son ajit singh suffered a shock defeat at the hands of satyapal singh a former mumbai police commissioner bjp has backed singh though he had to face opposition from a local faction but noida is a significant urban pocket but tmcs dasrath tirkey left now faces john barla right with a challenge coming from a rising bjp base given rsss work with adivasis over the years to bring them into the hindu fold ghaziabad upformer army chief vk singh once again starts as favourite in a seat that saw one of the biggest victory margins in the 2014 polls when he trounced raj babbar of congress the others are realtor mvv satyanarayana of ysrcp and ap mahila congress chief pedada ramanikumari the worlds largest democratic exercise has begun today choudhary had won the seat in 2009 on a jdu ticket aprijiju is fighting his toughest battle against congress strongman and former cm nabam tuki though bjp made a clean sweep in the assembly polls in 2017 bsp which had won the seat in the 2009 lok sabha polls has a vote bank here congress has fielded entrepreneurturnedpolitician dolly sharma a brahmin former union minister in the manmohan singh cabinet daggubati purandeswari is contesting on a bjp ticket jayant who lost in mathura to hema malini in 2014 gains confidence from the presence of 325 lakh muslim voters and support from congress which has not fielded a candidate as part of the gathbandhan with sp and bsp singh is confident of swinging muzaffarnagar in his favour but bengals ruling party has been affected by infighting here tmc has fielded former fb leader paresh chandra adhikari left in this battle of the turncoats new delhi it received a fillip in the form of nisith pramanik right a former trinamool leader coming into the fold this time it is ajits son jayant chaudhary who is trying to reclaim the family bastion with both banking on one section of the electorate ajit muslims and balyan upper castes 30 of voters jats and dalits could hold the key the fight is big with a whopping 1285 candidates in fray the union mos for home had polled over half the votes last time jamui biharchirag ljp chief ram vilas paswans son is banking on the modi factor and a favourable caste equation to get reelected from maoisthit jamui the constituency has 36 muslim votes 11 jats and 12 dalits alipurduar west bengalhome to more than eight ethnic tribes including ravas totos and mech the bengalassam border district has more than 40 tribal population sitting mp sanjeev balyan