More than 55 percent voting was recorded on Thursday in the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Among the 676 candidates for 57 seats in 10 districts in this phase, prominent faces include Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and State Congress President Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj.
According to provisional data updated till 7 pm, 55.79 per cent polling was recorded. In the 2017 assembly elections, 56.47 percent voter turnout was recorded in these 57 seats. Officials said the final tally would be released by the election officials later.
With this, voting has been done on 349 out of the total 403 assembly seats. The last phase of polling for the remaining 54 seats will be held on March 7. Around 2.15 crore people were eligible to vote in this phase. Voting started at 7 am and went on till 6 pm.
The districts where polling took place on Thursday include Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia. In the 2017 assembly elections, the BJP had won 46 out of 57 seats.
According to the Election Commission of India’s turnout app, around 53.31 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 5 pm. Additional Chief Electoral Officer (ACEO) BDR Tiwari said polling in the state was conducted peacefully.
According to the Home Department, 62.66 percent in Ambedkarnagar, 52.01 percent in Ballia, 48.90 percent in Balrampur, 57.20 percent in Basti, 56 percent in Deoria, 58.89 percent in Gorakhpur, 59 percent in Kushinagar, 59.5 percent in Maharajganj, Sant voted. According to the report received till 7 pm, Kabir Nagar 52.20 percent and Siddharth Nagar 51.60 percent. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi, Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party President Om Prakash Rajbhar, Minister Upendra Tiwari and former Minister Narad Rai were among those who cast their vote in the morning.
Talking to reporters after casting his vote, the Chief Minister said that BJP will get 80 per cent votes and the remaining 20 per cent will be divided among the opposition. The Samajwadi Party pitted former BJP leader Late Upendra Dutt Shukla’s wife against Adityanath. Chandrashekhar Azad, the founder of Azad Samaj Party, also contested against the Chief Minister from Gorakhpur seat.
Swami Prasad Maurya, who was a minister in the Adityanath government and left the BJP to join the Samajwadi Party, contested from Fazilnagar, where polling was held on Thursday, besides leader of opposition in the state assembly and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Ram. He also contested from Govind Chaudhary. Bansdih. The ministers whose electoral fortunes were sealed in the voting machines in this phase include Surya Pratap Shahi from Pathardev, Satish Chandra Dwivedi from Etawa, Jai Pratap Singh from Bansi, Shri Ram Chauhan from Khajani and Jai Prakash Nishad from Rudrapur.
This phase of campaigning saw political parties launch an all-out attack against each other. Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked rivals of BJP by tagging him as dynastic, who claimed that he can never enable India or empower Uttar Pradesh and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra denied it saying Was that BJP is only against his family, who did not bow down. before this.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, in his election campaign, had accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to end reservation and “sell” government institutions to the private sector.
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