Sixth part of UP polls: Polling begins on 57 Assembly seats, Adityanath amongst outstanding candidates

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Voting for the sixth part of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls started on Thursday morning, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and several other outstanding faces amongst 676 candidates, who’re contesting on 57 seats unfold throughout 10 districts.

The voting began at 7 am and can proceed until 6 pm. Around 2.15 crore individuals are eligible to vote on this part. Till now, voting for 292 of the 403 Assembly seats has been accomplished. The last part of the elections on the remaining 54 seats will likely be held on March 7.

The districts the place polling is being held on Thursday are Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia.

Among the 676 candidates within the fray on this part are CM Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj seat.

Swami Prasad Maurya, who was a minister within the Adityanath authorities and had give up the BJP to hitch the Samajwadi Party, is contesting from Fazilnagar.

The Samajwadi Party has pitted the spouse of the late Upendra Dutt Shukla, a former BJP chief, in opposition to Adityanath.

Azad Samaj Party founder Chandrashekhar Azad can also be contesting in opposition to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister from Gorakhpur Urban.

The Leader of the Opposition within the state Assembly and Samajwadi Party chief Ram Govind Chaudhary is contesting from Bansdih.

Many incumbent ministers’ destiny may also be determined on this part. They embrace Surya Pratap Shahi from Pathardeva, Satish Chandra Dwivedi from Itwa, Jai Pratap Singh from Bansi, Shree Ram Chauhan from Khajani and Jai Prakash Nishad from Rudrapur.

The campaigning for this part witnessed the political events going for an all-out assault in opposition to one another.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the BJP’s rivals by tagging them as dynasts, who he claimed can by no means make India succesful or empower Uttar Pradesh.

Congress common secretary Priyanka Gandhi rebutted by saying that the BJP is barely in opposition to her household, which didn’t bow down earlier than it.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy of ending reservation and “selling” authorities entities to the personal sector.

In the 2017 Assembly polls, the BJP had gained 46 of the 57 seats.