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All set for 7th phase of voting

Fate of Modi, Sonia and other top guns to be decided in 7th phase on Wednesday

UTTAR PRADESH: Rae Bareli, the pocket borough of the Gandhis, Lucknow and Kanpur are among the 14 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh where election will be held on April 30. Congress President Sonia Gandhi is seeking re-election from Rae Bareli, BJP President Rajnath Singh is contesting from Lucknow, once represented by former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee in Lok Sabha. He is a sitting MP from Ghaziabad. Singh is pitted against former UP Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and AAP's Javed Jaffrey. Shifted from Varanasi, senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi is contesting from Kanpur where Union minister and Congress leader Sriprakash Jaiswal is fighting to retain his turf.