UP Assembly Polls 2022: For the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, polling is going to be held in 57 assembly constituencies of 10 districts including Gorakhpur, the constituency of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, tomorrow i.e. on March 3. In this phase, the fate of political stalwarts like Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress state president Ajay Kumar Lallu and Samajwadi Party’s Swami Prasad Maurya will be decided.
Polling has been held in the last five phases in 292 seats of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. One of the most populous states in India has a total of 403 assembly seats. Voting has now moved to the Purvanchal region of the state where voters hold 111 seats. Counting of votes will take place on March 10 in all the five states of Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh. A total of 676 candidates are trying their luck in this phase.
BJP had won 46 out of 57 seats
Last time i.e. in the 2017 assembly elections, out of these 57 seats, 46 were won by BJP and two by its allies Apna Dal and Subhasp. Then there was an alliance of Subhaspa and BJP. This time there is an alliance of Subhasp and Samajwadi Party (SP). 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.
The fate of veterans including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be decided
This phase will also decide the electoral fate of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who is the BJP candidate from Gorakhpur’s Sadar assembly seat. Voting will also be held in Gorakhpur, the constituency of Chief Minister Yogi, 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.
Apart from this, Lalji Verma, who was the leader of the BAC Legislative Party in Kathari assembly seat of Ambedkarnagar district, is trying his luck as a SP candidate this time, while former BJP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar this time in Akbarpur assembly seat of the same district. SP candidate.
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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.
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.
11 out of 57 seats reserved for SC
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.
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.
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