UP Elections 2022: Campaigning for the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections ended at 6 pm on Tuesday in 57 assembly constituencies of 10 districts, including Gorakhpur, the constituency of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. All the seats in this phase will go to polls tomorrow i.e. on March 3.
State Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said that campaigning for the sixth phase of elections has been effectively banned since 6 pm on Tuesday and this ban will be effective till the end of the sixth phase, ie 48 hours. He said that the preparations for the sixth phase of polling have been completed and instructions have been given to make necessary arrangements to conduct the polling in a free, fair and transparent manner on March 3.
676 candidates are trying their luck
According to the information, a total of 676 candidates are in the fray in this phase. In the 2017 assembly elections, 46 of these 57 seats were won by the BJP and two by its allies Apna Dal (S) and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SubhSP), although this time Subhaspa is contesting in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. In the sixth phase, voting will be held from 7 am to 6 pm on March 3 in 57 assembly constituencies of Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia districts in 10 districts.
UP Elections 2022: Campaigning for the sixth phase in UP will end this evening, votes will be cast on March 3 for 57 seats in 10 districts.
Many star campaigners, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Bharatiya Janata Party President JP Nadda, have campaigned in the sixth phase of the assembly constituencies. In the same phase, polling will also be held in Gorakhpur, the constituency of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is contesting the assembly elections for the first time, where many candidates, including Samajwadi Party’s Subhavati Shukla and Azad Samaj Party president Chandrashekhar Azad, are in the fray.
The fate of these giants will be decided in this phase.
Lalji Verma, who was the leader of the BAC legislature party in the Kathari assembly seat of Ambedkarnagar district in the sixth phase, is trying his luck as a SP candidate this time, while former BJP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar is in the Akbarpur assembly seat of the same district. Bar is a SP candidate.
In the sixth phase, in the Bansi seat of Siddharthnagar district, State Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh is again trying his luck as a BJP candidate, while in the Etawa seat of the same district, former Assembly Speaker and SP candidate Mata Prasad Pandey is facing the state’s Basic Education Minister. And BJP candidate is from Satish Chandra Dwivedi. Dwivedi had defeated Pandey in 2017.
Swami Prasad Maurya, who won the elections from the BJP last time from the Padrauna assembly seat of Kushinagar district and was the labor minister in the Yogi government for nearly five years, is the SP candidate this time from the Fazilnagar seat of Kushinagar, where he is up against BJP’s Surendra Kushwaha. State Congress President Ajay Kumar Lallu is in the fray from Tamkuhiraj seat of Kushinagar.
A total of more than 2.14 crore voters will cast their votes.
State Agriculture Minister and BJP candidate Surya Pratap Shahi is pitted against his old rival SP’s Brahmashankar Tripathi in the Pathardeva seat of Deoria district. Apart from this, Minister of State for Independent Charge Shri Ram Chauhan (Khajni-Gorakhpur), Minister of State Jaiprakash Nishad (Rudrapur-Deoria) and Shalabh Mani Tripathi (Deoria), who came into politics from journalism, are in the fray as BJP candidates.
Of the 57 seats in the sixth phase, 11 seats are reserved for scheduled castes. There are a total of more than 2.14 crore voters in this phase. Voting has been held in 292 seats in five phases so far in the proposed seven-phased assembly elections for 403 assembly seats in the state and 111 seats are yet to go to polls in the last two phases on March 3 and March 7 respectively.
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