Publish Date: | Mon, 07 Mar 2022 07:19 AM (IST)
UP 7th Phase Polling: Voting is going on in the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on Monday. Voting will be held from 7 am to 6 pm in 54 seats in 9 districts including Varanasi, Azamgarh and Mirzapur. Voting will be held from 7 am to 4 pm in Robertsganj and Duddhi of Naxal-affected Sonbhadra and Chakia seat of Chandauli. In the last phase, 2.06 crore voters will decide the fate of 613 candidates who have entered the fray. Of these, 75 are women candidates. In the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections, out of these 54 seats, BJP had won 29, SP 11, BSP six, Apna Dal four, SubhaSP three and Nishad Party one.
Voting today in nine districts: The nine districts of Purvanchal where polling will be held on Monday include Varanasi, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Azamgarh, Mau, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra and Bhadohi.
Modi’s Kashi in focus: In the last phase, elections will also be held in Varanasi (Kashi), the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The Prime Minister campaigned vigorously in Varanasi and other districts to garner support in favor of the BJP. SP President Akhilesh Yadav and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also roared in Modi’s bastion. Therefore, everyone will be interested in the prestigious election contests to be held in Varanasi and surrounding districts.
UP 7th Phase Polling: These giants are in the fray
- Seven ministers of Yogi government will be examined in the last phase. Among them, Backward Classes Welfare Minister Anil Rajbhar from Varanasi’s Shivpur seat, Ravindra Jaiswal, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Stamp and Registration from Varanasi North, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Tourism and Culture from Varanasi South, Neelkanth Tiwari, Housing and Urban Planning from Jaunpur State. Minister Girish Yadav, Minister of State for Power Ramashankar Singh Patel from Madihan seat of Mirzapur, Sanjeev Gond, Minister of State for Social Welfare from Obra seat of Sonbhadra and Minister of State for Cooperation Sangeeta Balwant from Ghazipur Sadar seat.
- Among the veterans who are in the fray in the last phase, Durga Prasad Yadav of SP is contesting from Azamgarh and Dara Singh Chauhan Ghosi, who left the BJP and joined the SP after resigning from the Yogi cabinet.
- As SP candidate Ramakant Yadav, former MP from Phulpur Powai seat of Azamgarh, Shailendra Yadav Lalai from Shahganj and Alambadi Azmi from Nizamabad, former MP Toofani Saroj from Kerakat seat of Jaunpur and SubhasSP candidate Jagdish Narayan Rai from Jaffrabad seat also lucked. are trying.
Posted By: Arvind Dubey