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New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind and his wife Savita Kovind cast their ballot on Sunday as Delhi went to polls in the penultimate phase of the Lok Sabha elections. Polling is being held for 59 Lok Sabha seats today to decide the fate of as many as 979 candidates. The prominent among those in the fray are former chief ministers Akhilesh Yadav from Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh, Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh, Bhupinder Singh Hooda from Sonepat in Haryana and Sheila Dikshit from North-East Delhi. Kovind, along with the First Lady, went to polling booth number ten in Rashtrapati Bhavan premises this morning to exercise their franchise. While former Union minister and RJD veteran Raghuvansh Prasad Singh are in the race from Vaishali in Bihar, Congress general secretary Jyotiraditya Scindia is contesting from Guna in Madhya Pradesh..