Around 2.24 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase.
Around 2.24 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase.
Voting for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections in 61 seats in 12 districts began on a slow pace on Sunday with just over 8% of voters exercising their right in the first two hours of polling.
maximum 692 candidates are in fray The round also includes Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who is contesting from Sirathu in Kaushambi district. He is pitted against Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) candidate Pallavi Patel.
Voting began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. Around 2.24 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase.
According to ECI’s voter turnout app, the polling percentage till 9 am is 8.02%.
Amethi 8.67%, Ayodhya 9.44%, Bahraich 7.45%, Barabanki 6.21%, Chitrakoot 8.80%, Gonda 8.31%, Kaushambi 11.40%, Pratapgarh 6.95%, Prayagraj 6.95%, Rae Bareli 7.48%, 9.67% voter turnout was recorded in Shravasti and 8.60% in Sultanpur. %, it said.
The districts where polling is being held are Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabanki, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda.
Amethi and Rae Bareli, once considered a Congress stronghold, and Ayodhya, which was the center of the Ram temple movement, will also vote on Sunday.
Some of the ministers are Siddharth Nath Singh from Allahabad West, Rajendra Singh from Patti (Pratapgarh), Nand Gopal Gupta Nadi from Allahabad South and Ramapati Shastri from Mankapur (Gonda).
Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, who has been an MLA from Kunda since 1993, is once again in the fray as a Jansatta Dal candidate, with his old colleague Gulshan Yadav contesting against him on a Samajwadi Party ticket.
Union Minister Anupriya Patel’s mother and Apna Dal (K) leader Krishna Patel is contesting from Pratapgarh seat. Apna Dal (K) has forged an alliance with the Samajwadi Party.
Union Minister Patel, leading a rival faction of the party named after his father Sonelal Patel, however, handed over the seat to the BJP to challenge his mother Krishna Patel.
Congress Legislature Party leader Aradhana Mishra Mona is contesting from Rampur Khas in Pratapgarh.
With the completion of voting on Sunday, voting will be held in 292 out of the total 403 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly. Polling will be held in the last two phases on March 3 and 7. The results will be declared on March 10.
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