Lucknow: In view of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2022, all the parties in the state have put their full strength. With this, voting is to be held on 58 seats in the first phase in the state tomorrow. Want to tell that under the first phase in Uttar Pradesh, voting will be held in 58 seats in 11 districts of Western UP tomorrow. Voters will decide the fate of many veteran candidates in this phase. Voting will start at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. According to the information received from the Election Commission office, all the preparations have been completed for the first phase of elections.
It is to be known that in this phase polling will be held in Shamli, Hapur, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Gautam Buddha Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura and Agra districts. The campaigning for the first phase ended at 5 pm on Tuesday. A total of 623 candidates are in the fray in the first phase of elections and there are 2.27 crore voters in this phase. The first phase of elections will be held in a Jat dominated area. In this phase, the political fate of the state government ministers Shrikant Sharma, Suresh Rana, Sandeep Singh, Kapil Dev Agarwal, Atul Garg and Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan will be decided.
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Uttar Pradesh: Muslim candidates in the first phase.
It may be noted that out of 58 seats in 11 districts of the first phase in UP, about 50 Muslim candidates of major parties have fielded in many seats. 13 candidates are in the fray from the Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance, 17 from the Bahujan Samaj Party, 11 from the Congress and nine from Owaisi’s AIMIM. However, the BJP has not given ticket to a single Muslim candidate.
The SP-RLD alliance will have a litmus test.
The first phase of UP is special in many ways for the Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance. In this phase, both these parties have to undergo a fire test. In fact, in the last assembly elections held in the year 2017, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had won 53 out of 58 seats in the first phase, while the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) got two seats each. Apart from this, a candidate of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) also won.
PM Modi did the work of creating an atmosphere in favor of BJP.
Most of the campaigning for the first phase of elections was done digitally due to the ban on rallies and road shows by the Election Commission in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while spearheading the BJP’s election campaign, referred to the achievements of the party-led governments at the Center and in Uttar Pradesh and asked people to beware of “fake socialists” while attacking the SP-RLD alliance. Apart from this, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath repeatedly raised the issue of exodus of Hindus from Kairana before the year 2017.
Akhilesh-Jayant put full force, surrounded the BJP fiercely.
On the other hand, SP President Akhilesh Yadav and RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary during their election campaign strongly raised the issues of farmers and accused BJP leaders of lying. BSP president Mayawati, who made a late start to her election campaign, reminded people of the law and order situation in the state during the tenure of her previous government and accused rival parties of “cheating” the people of the state. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra went door to door to the voters and sought votes.