Leaders' fate New Delhi: Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) prime ministerial candidate L K Advani will be among the 1,567 candidates whose political fates will be decided on Thursday when the third phase of Election 2009 is held across nine states and two union territories.
Delhi candidates' cooling secrets!
As the summer gathers force with temperatures hitting 40 degrees Celsius and more in many parts of the country, voters will begin queuing up outside the 165,000 polling stations in 107 constituencies from 7 am. The exercise, which involves an electorate of over 144 million, 200,000 electronic voting machines and 600,000 election officials, will conclude at 5 pm.
Image: Congress President Sonia Gandhi being felicitated at an election rally in Vasai near Thane.
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