Uttar Pradesh elections sixth part: Over 36 per cent polling until 1 pm

By PTI

LUCKNOW: Over 36 per cent voting was recorded until 1 pm within the sixth part of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on Thursday.

The distinguished faces among the many 676 candidates for 57 seats unfold throughout 10 districts on this part embrace Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj.

The voting began at 7 am and can proceed until 6 pm.

Around 2.15 crore persons are eligible to vote on this part.

So far, voting for 292 of the 403 Assembly seats has been accomplished.

The ultimate part of the elections on the remaining 54 seats will probably be held on March 7.

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

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

Till 1 pm there was over 36.33 per cent polling, in keeping with the Election Commission of India’s Turnout app.

While Ambedkarnagar had 40.36 per cent voting, Ballia had 36.27 per cent, Balrampur 29.6 per cent, Basti 37.49 per cent, Deoria 35.02 per cent, Gorakhpur 36.57 per cent, Kushinagar 39.33 per cent, Mahrajganj 35.39 per cent, Sant Kabir Nagar 34.33 per cent and Siddharth Nagar 36.51 per cent.

Those who forged their votes within the morning included Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi, Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chowdhury, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, minister Upendra Tiwari and former minister Narad Rai.

Interacting with reporters after casting his vote, the chief minister mentioned the BJP will get 80 per cent votes and the remainder 20 per cent will get divided among the many opposition.

He additionally appealed to individuals to vote in giant numbers.

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

Azad Samaj Party founder Chandrashekhar Azad can be contesting towards the Uttar Pradesh chief minister from Gorakhpur Urban.

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

Many incumbent ministers’ destiny will even 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 towards 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 basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi rebutted by saying the BJP is simply towards 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.