All set for voting for eighth phase

Having won in 2009 nearly half of the 64 seats going to polls in the penultimate round on May 7, Congress appears to face a difficult task when people in the whole of Seemandhra, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand cast their vote in the Lok Sabha elections. Conversely its main rival BJP, which currently has only five seats in Wednesday's round, may have everything to gain if it improves its performance in parts of heartland UP and Bihar that go to polls along with some constituencies in Jammu and Kashmir.