Gorakhpur city, from where Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is in fray, is one of the nine sensitive assembly constituencies in the state to go to polls in the sixth phase on Thursday. According to police, over 1.5 lakh security personnel will be deployed in 57 assembly seats in 10 districts in this phase, where 2.1 crore people are eligible to vote.
UP Police said in a statement that polling will be held at 13,930 polling stations and 25,319 polling stations in 179 police station areas. Nine assembly constituencies – Gorakhpur city, Bansi, Etawah, Dumariaganj, Ballia Nagar, Phephna Bairia, Sikanderpur and Bansdih – have been kept in the sensitive category, police said.
The Samajwadi Party has pitted the wife of former BJP leader Late Upendra Dutt Shukla against Adityanath in Gorakhpur city. Azad Samaj Party founder Chandrashekhar Azad is also contesting against the Chief Minister. The 10 districts where elections will be held in this phase are Deoria, Basti, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar, Siddharthnagar, Balrampur, Ambedkar Nagar and Ballia.
In the sixth phase, a total of 824 majras and localities have been marked as sensitive, while 2,962 polling places have been identified as critical. Police said that a total of 109 pink booths (women booths) have been set up especially to motivate women to vote.
Apart from 259 women constables or head constables, 19 women inspectors or sub-inspectors have been posted at these booths. Police said all 13,930 polling stations will be covered by the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) for the successful conduct of the sixth phase of polling, for which 850 companies of CAPFs have been received.
According to officials, a CAPF company usually has an operational capacity of around 70-80 personnel. Police said that out of the total strength, 797 CAPF companies would be deployed for booth duty, while 44 would be deployed for law and order.
It said that a total of six CAPF companies would be deployed for duty at 115 international/inter-state barrier points in UP. In the sixth phase, 6,783 inspectors and sub-inspectors of UP Police, 57,550 head constables along with 17 companies of PAC, 46,236 home-guards have been deployed on election duty, the UP police said.
In addition, the police said that 63,899 licensed weapons have been deposited with them since the Model Code of Conduct came into force in 10 districts of the sixth phase. One licensed weapon was confiscated and 539 arms licenses were also cancelled.
Police said that in view of the possibility of breach of peace during elections, preventive action has been taken against 3.41 lakh people under CrPC 107/116 in 43,341 incidents, while 2.95 lakh people have been compelled under Section 116(3) of CrPC. Has been done. In these 10 districts, 722 illegal arms and 433 cartridges were recovered and four factories manufacturing illegal arms were busted.
So far, Rs 1.70 crore in cash, Rs 3.30 lakh in precious metals have been seized, while illicit liquor worth Rs 1.88 lakh crore has been seized, the police said. A total of 152 cognizable offenses and 96 non-cognizable offenses have been registered for violation of the code of conduct in the sixth phase so far, the police said.
Another 53 cases have been registered for violation of election related guidelines.
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