Via PTI
LUCKNOW: Over 54 in step with cent voter turnout was once recorded until 5 pm within the 7th and remaining segment of the Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections for 54 seats on Monday.
Vote casting began at 7 am.
It ended at 4 pm in Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and the Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats, whilst in the remainder of the segments, it persevered until 6 pm.
The districts the place polls are underway on this segment are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.
The balloting share until 5 pm was once 54.18 in step with cent, in keeping with the Election Fee’s ‘Voter Turnout’ software.
Whilst Azamgarh witnessed 52.34 in step with cent balloting, Bhadohi noticed 54.26 in step with cent, Chandauli 59.59 in step with cent, Ghazipur 53.67 in step with cent, Jaunpur 53.55 in step with cent, Mau 55.04 in step with cent, Mirzapur 54.93 in step with cent, Sonbhadra 56.95 in step with cent and Varanasi 52.79 in step with cent, it confirmed.
A complete of 613 applicants are within the fray for the 54 seats, together with the ones falling in Top Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary phase Varanasi.
The destiny of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Birthday celebration president Om Prakash Rajbhar and several other state ministers will probably be determined on this spherical, by which 2.06 crore individuals are eligible to vote.
But even so state Tourism Minister Neelkanth Tiwari, who’s contesting for the Varanasi South seat, different ministers within the fray within the remaining 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 joined the Samajwadi Birthday celebration (SP), is contesting from the Ghosi seat 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 segment.
Campaigning on this segment reached its crescendo with Modi main the BJP’s ballot blitzkrieg in Varanasi and its adjacent districts.
The state has 403 Meeting seats and the result of the elections will probably be declared on March 10.