In the first phase of the election, Nagpur, one of the 48 Lok Sabha constituencies of Maharashtra, will cast its vote on April 19.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP fielded Bhagavanth Rao against the AIMIM chief. However, the BJP candidate stood a distant second, losing to Owaisi by 2,82,186 votes.

PM Modi said that while most of governments start losing support by the end of the second term, the BJP government is seeing an increase in its support base.