UP Elections 2022: Campaigning for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections ended at 6 pm on Friday. In this phase, voting will be held in 61 seats in 12 districts including Ayodhya and Prayagraj tomorrow i.e. on February 27. State Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said that campaigning for the fifth phase of elections has been effectively stopped from 6 pm on Friday.
The Election Commission told news agency PTI that this ban will be effective for 48 hours, ie, the end of the fifth phase of polling. He said that preparations for the fifth 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 February 27.
7 am to 6 pm
According to the information, 692 candidates are in the fray in this phase whose political fate will be decided by about 2.24 crore voters. Voting will be held on Sunday from 7 am to 6 pm. The districts falling in the fifth phase include Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabanki, Ayodhya, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda districts, besides Amethi and Rae Bareli districts, which were considered Congress strongholds.
Let us inform that in the fifth phase, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya is the BJP candidate from Sirathu assembly constituency of his home district Kaushambi, against whom Samajwadi Party has fielded Apna Dal (Communist) leader Pallavi Patel.
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Anupriya Patel, sister of Pallavi Patel and a minister in the central government, has campaigned in favor of Maurya, while on Friday, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav and SP MP and famous actress Jaya Bachchan also campaigned for Pallavi Patel. Sirath had arrived. On Friday, Home Minister Amit Shah, while addressing election public meetings in support of many BJP candidates including Maurya, attacked the SP fiercely.
Voting to be held in religiously important areas
In the fifth phase, polling will be held in religiously important areas from Ayodhya to Prayagraj and Chitrakoot. Sanjay Singh, the head of the former princely state of Amethi, is the candidate from BJP this time in Amethi, while state minister Rajendra Pratap Singh alias Moti Singh, Patti of Pratapgarh district, Khadi and Village Industries Minister Siddharth Nath Singh West assembly seat of Prayagraj district, Civil Aviation Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi is contesting from the South seat of this district, Social Welfare Minister Ramapati Shastri is contesting from Mankapur in Gonda district and Minister of State Chandrika Prasad Upadhyay is contesting from Chitrakoot assembly seat.
Raghuraj Pratap Singh, who has been winning the election from Kunda in Pratapgarh district since 1993, is in the fray on a traditional seat this time on his Jansatta Party ticket. In Pratapgarh district itself, Apna Dal (Kamarawadi) president Krishna Patel is contesting the BJP as a candidate of the Samajwadi Alliance. Krishna Patel is the mother of Anupriya Patel, a minister in the Narendra Modi government. Congress leader in the assembly Aradhana Mishra alias Mona is also trying her luck from her traditional Rampur Khas seat in Pratapgarh district.
Voting has been done on 231 seats so far
After the completion of the fourth phase of polling, so far 231 of the 403 assembly seats in the state have been voted. Polling will be held in the last three phases on February 27, March 3 and March 7. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath campaigned in the fifth phase of the constituencies where voters would exercise their franchise on February 27. Rivals Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi toured widely separated constituencies to challenge the ruling BJP.
Voting is also to be held in Gandhi family stronghold
Congress President Sonia Gandhi addressed a rally for the voters of her constituency Rae Bareli, her first rally in the ongoing elections in Uttar Pradesh. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi addressed a joint rally in Amethi, a long-time Gandhi family stronghold, which the BJP won in the 2017 assembly elections as well as the 2019 general election. Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed several rallies in Amethi, Prayagraj, Kaushambi and Bahraich for the victory of BJP. PM Modi mainly attacked the opponents on the issues of vote bank politics and familyism.