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UP Witnesses 57% Voter Turnout in Sixth Phase of Polls

Seven districts – Mau, Ballia, Azamgarh, Deoria, Kushinagar, Maharajganj and Gorakhpur – will cast their votes.

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Snapshot
  • 57% voter turnout recorded in sixth phase of polls
  • Over 1.72 crore people will cast their vote in the penultimate phase of UP elections
  • 635 candidates in the fray for 49 seats
  • Yogi Adityanath and Mukhtar Ansari among the leaders contesting elections
  • 17,926 polling booths have been set up for the voting
5:05 PM , 04 Mar

57% Voter Turnout Recorded in Sixth Phase

An estimated 57% percent voters cast their votes in the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh elections.

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3:37 PM , 04 Mar

Modi Attacks Akhilesh Yadav Government

Attacking the Samajwadi Party again, Modi said he exposed the misdeeds of the Akhilesh Yadav government in his previous rally.

At the rally in Jaunpur, Modi castigated everybody who speaks against the Indian Army. Raking up the issue of surgical strikes once again, he attacked people and parties that use the the Army as a political tool.

“Those who question surgical strikes come to Jaunpur and ask the families of martyrs. Why politicise issues of national security,” Modi said.

“For 40 years our forces demanded OROP but nothing happened. I had promised that the BJP government will deliver on OROP and we did,” he further said.

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3:30 PM , 04 Mar

Rahul Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav Hold Joint Roadshow

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav held a joint roadshow during the sixth phase of the state polls.

1:06 PM , 04 Mar

Kushinagar, Mau Lead in 25% Polling in Four Hours in UP

Thousands of people from Kushinagar and Mau districts in UP cast their votes polling 30 and 27 per cent respectively, according to an Election Commission official.

Till 11 a.m., 25 per cent voting was reported from Ballia, 23 per cent from Maharajganj and Deoria, and 22 per cent from Gorakhpur.

Azamgarh, the Lok Sabha constituency of Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav recorded the lowest turnout of 21 per cent. The SP patriarch did not campaign in this constituency. Meanwhile, the second highest turnout of voters were seen in Mau where mafia don turned politician Mukhtar Ansari was fielded by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP).

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Published: 04 Mar 2017, 6:05 AM IST
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