Vote casting starts for final section of UP polls; 613 applicants in fray on 54 seats

Via PTI

LUCKNOW: Vote casting for the 7th and the final section of the Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections started on Monday morning, with 613 applicants within the fray on 54 seats, together with the ones falling in High Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary section Varanasi.

The destiny of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Celebration president Om Prakash Rajbhar and several other state ministers might be made up our minds on this spherical, by which 2.06 crore persons are eligible to vote.

Vote casting might be held from 7 am to 4 pm at the Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats whilst in the remainder of the segments, it is going to proceed until 6 pm.

The districts going to the polls on this section are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.

As soon as thought to be a stronghold of the Samajwadi Celebration, the area noticed the BJP making inroads in 2017 through successful 29 seats.

The Bahujan Samaj Celebration (BSP) were given six seats and the SP 11.

For the SP, its patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav made a unprecedented look in Jaunpur to drum up enhance for Fortunate Yadav, the son of his long-time affiliate the overdue Parasnath Yadav.

Fortunate Yadav is within the fray from the Malhani seat.

Mulayam had previous campaigned for his son Akhilesh Yadav within the Karhal Meeting section of Mainpuri.

But even so state Tourism Minister Neelkanth Tiwari (Varanasi South), different ministers within the fray within the final leg of the elections are Anil Rajbhar (Shivpur-Varanasi), Ravindra Jaiswal (Varanasi North), Girish Yadav (Jaunpur) and Ramashankar Singh Patel (Marihan-Mirzapur).

Dara Singh Chauhan, who had resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cupboard and had joined the SP, is contesting from Ghosi in Mau.

Om Prakash Rajbhar (Zahoorabad), Dhananjay Singh (Malhani-Jaunpur) because the JD(U) candidate, and Abbas Ansari, the son of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, from Mau Sadar seat, are contesting on this section.

Campaigning on this section reached its crescendo with High Minister Narendra Modi main the BJP’s ballot blitzkrieg in Varanasi and its adjacent districts.

But even so addressing election rallies, he additionally held a roadshow for 3 Meeting constituencies in his Lok Sabha section.

This section additionally noticed West Bengal Leader Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee descending at the pilgrim town to carry a joint rally with Akhilesh Yadav and his RLD best friend Jayant Chaudhary.

Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were tenting in Varanasi for approximately 4 days.

She, along side her brother Rahul Gandhi, addressed election conferences, while BSP supremo Mayawati campaigned within the district and neighbouring spaces.

In quest of to override anti-incumbency, the ruling birthday party raised problems like pressured migration and regulation and order issues throughout the former SP govt, whilst Akhilesh Yadav centered the BJP govt at the problems with inflation, unemployment, stray livestock, and the farmers’ agitation towards the Centre’s agriculture regulations.

The mowing down of 4 farmers in Lakhimpur Kheri used to be additionally highlighted through all opposition events as Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish Mishra is an accused within the case.

The state has 403 Meeting seats and the result of the elections might be declared on March 10.