In the fourth phase of polling, voting will be held on Wednesday for 59 assembly seats in nine districts of Uttar Pradesh. Vigorous campaigning for this phase came to an end on Monday as last-minute campaigning intensified between political rivals.
The fourth phase of polling on February 23 will decide the fate of 624 candidates in 59 assembly constituencies of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda and Fatehpur districts. In the 2017 assembly elections, out of 59 seats, BJP won 51 seats, four went to the Samajwadi Party and three to the Bahujan Samaj Party. Apna Dal (Sonelal), an ally of the BJP, got one seat.
Lakhimpur, which was in the national news headlines after eight people, including four farmers, were killed in the violence on October 3, will go to polls in the fourth phase. Among the prominent candidates in this phase is Uttar Pradesh Law Minister Brijesh Pathak who is facing Samajwadi Party candidate and two-time corporator Surendra Singh Gandhi in Lucknow Cantonment seat.
Pathak had won the Lucknow Central seat in 2017. Another minister Ashutosh Tandon is in the fray from Lucknow East seat and is being challenged by SP’s national spokesperson Anurag Bhadauria.
In the Sarojini Nagar assembly constituency, there will be a fight between former ED officer Rajeshwar Singh, fielded by the BJP, and Abhishek Mishra, a minister in the Samajwadi Party government. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Deputy Speaker Nitin Agarwal, who switched over to the BJP from the Samajwadi Party, will face an electoral test in this phase.
Rae Bareli, considered a Congress stronghold, will also vote in this phase, in which BJP’s Aditi Singh is in the fray from Rae Bareli. She was earlier with Congress. Voting will start from 7 am on Wednesday and will continue till 6 pm.
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