The battle for Uttar Pradesh began today with voting for 58 assembly seats spread over 11 districts in the western part of the state. State Election Commission officials said here that polling began at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
Election officials said 623 candidates, including 73 women, are in the fray in the first phase and around 2.28 core voters, including 1.24 crore men and 1.04 crore women, are eligible to exercise their franchise.
The ministers whose fate will be decided in the first phase include Shrikant Sharma, Suresh Rana, Sandeep Singh, Kapil Dev Agarwal, Atul Garg and Chaudhary Laxmi Narayan.
In 2017, BJP got 53 out of 58 seats, while SP and BSP got two seats each. One seat went to RLD’s account.
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