Rainbow of colours in Lok Sabha election campaign

Trinamool Congress has already started campaigning for upcoming Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal which will be held in the state over seven phases. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

TMC recently announced its candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, with 40 per cent women representation out of the total 42 candidates. (Express photo: Partha Paul)

BJP supporters posing for selfies with cutout of PM Narendra Modi in the background. In 2014, BJP bagged majority on its own by winning 282 of the 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. After Vajpayee, Modi is the second non-Congress PM to finish a term in office. (Express photo: Bhupendra Rana)

The SP and BSP have decided to contest 38 seats each of the 80 seats in UP while leaving 2 seats for the Amethi and Rae Bareli seats for the Congress. The SP and BSP have joined hands to contest elections after 24 years. (Express photo: Vishal Srivastav)

Election campaign accessories such as flags, badges and props of various political parties on sale at shops in Sadar Bazar, Old Delhi ahead of Lok Sabha elections. (Express photo: Abhinav Saha)

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was appointed the general secretary and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh East on January 23 and has since then held a series of meetings with party workers. She gave her first election speech Tuesday with Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi by her side. (Express photo: Vishal Srivastav)

Shops in Mumbai are getting orders for saris with images of PM Narendra Modi ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. (Express photo: Pradip Das)

Badges of various political parties on sale at Old Delhi's Sadar Bazaar.(Express photo: Abhinav Saha)