Curtains came down on Tuesday on an acrimonious campaign in 124 constituencies in 17 states for the first phase of Lok Sabha polls on April 16, with electioneering marked by a bitter war of words between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh [Images] and Bharatiya Janata Party's [Images] senior leader L K Advani [Images].

Rashtriya Janata Dal's Lalu Prasad, BJP's Murli Manohar Joshi, Telangana Rashtra Samiti's K Chandrasekhar Rao, Congress' Renuka Chowdhury, actress Vijayasanthi, NTR's daughter D Purandeswari and former union minister B Dattatreya are among the prominent names seeking election to the lower house of Parliament in the first phase.

While all 20 seats in Kerala [Images] and two in Meghalaya would go to polls in a single phase on Thursday, polling would also be held in parts of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh [Images], Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur and Jammu and Kashmir [Images].

The lone seats in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Mizoram and Nagaland would go to polls on Thursday.

Prominent campaigners included Congress president Sonia Gandhi [Images], BJP prime minister hopeful L K Advani, Congress youth icons Rahul and Priyanka, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi [Images] and Left party leaders Prakash Karat [Images] and A B Bardhan.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who is recovering from a heart by-pass surgery in January, lent his bit to the Congress campaign when he went to Kerala and then to Mumbai [Images].