UP Election 2022: Polling on 59 seats in the third phase on Sunday, Akhilesh’s fate at stake

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections Polling will be held on Sunday for the third phase in 59 constituencies in 16 districts of the state. State Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said that the voting will start from 7 am on Sunday and will continue till 6 pm. Election commission The Board has directed the concerned administrative officers to make proper arrangements to ensure that voters do not face any kind of trouble while exercising their franchise.

In the third phase, two crore 16 lakh voters will exercise their franchise. These include more than one crore 16 lakh male voters and more than 99 lakh female voters, while more than one thousand transgender (third gender) voters are included. Ajay Kumar Shukla said that the Election Commission of India has made elaborate arrangements and security arrangements for fair, safe and peaceful elections and in view of Kovid-19, thermal scanners, hand sanitizers, gloves, face masks, face Shield, PPE kit, soap, water etc. have been arranged.

In the third phase of elections, 627 candidates are in the fray in 59 assembly constituencies, out of which 97 are women candidates. According to the commission, a total of 25,794 polling places and 15,557 polling stations have been set up in the third phase of elections and in view of Kovid-19, instructions have been given by the Election Commission of India to keep the maximum number of voters at polling places up to 1250. Ramps, toilets and drinking water facilities have been ensured at all polling places. He said that 52 General Observers, 16 Police Observers and 19 Expenditure Observers have also been deployed by the Commission to keep a watchful eye on the polling, besides 2235 Sector Magistrates, 273 Zonal Magistrates, 832 Static Magistrates and 3069 Micro Observers. Huh.

A Senior General Observer, a Senior Police Observer and two Senior Expenditure Observers have also been deployed by the Election Commission of India at the state level, who will stay in the area and supervise the entire election process. According to Shukla, 5,947 heavy vehicles, 6,426 light vehicles and 1,23,411 polling personnel have been deployed to carry out the election process. In the third phase, a total of 641 Adarsh ​​polling stations and 129 all women workers polling places have been made.

The third phase includes 59 assembly constituencies in 16 districts of the state, including Karhal assembly seat in Mainpuri district, where Union Minister Professor SP Singh Baghel from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and chief opposition Samajwadi Party president and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav are in a face-off. . A total of 627 candidates tried their luck in the third phase in Mainpuri district as well as in the assembly constituencies of Hathras, Firozabad, Etah, Kasganj, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Mahoba districts. are. The campaigning in these districts in the third phase ended on Friday evening.

Akhilesh is trying his luck in the assembly elections for the first time from Karhal area of ​​Mainpuri district. In the year 2017, even in the BJP wave, SP’s Sobran Singh Yadav had retained his victory in this seat. The contest has become interesting with Union Minister Professor SP Singh Baghel coming out as the BJP candidate against Akhilesh. Baghel has already claimed that no constituency can be called a ‘fort’ or a ‘garh’. Union Home Minister Amit Shah campaigning for Baghel and SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav campaigning for his son Akhilesh Yadav among the voters of Karhal. Making his first appearance in these elections, Mulayam sought votes for his son in Karhal, while Amit Shah told voters that only one seat (Karhal) can work for 300 seats. Amit Shah had said, “Get Kamal to win in Karhal and SP will be wiped out from the state.”

Meanwhile, the BJP has already approached the Election Commission seeking deployment of central paramilitary forces at all booths in Karhal. Not only this, it has also demanded installation of CCTV cameras after the recent incident of attack on Baghel’s convoy. Akhilesh’s uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav is contesting from his traditional Jaswantnagar seat. Congress General Secretary and in-charge of UP affairs Priyanka Gandhi did door-to-door campaigning and road shows in Kanpur, Hamirpur and Jalaun. BSP chief and former Chief Minister Mayawati addressed public meetings in Auraiya and Jalaun.

State government ministers Satish Mahana (Maharajpur-Kanpur) and Excise Minister Ramnaresh Agnihotri (Bhogaon-Mainpuri) Ramveer Upadhyay (Hathras-Sadabad) are in the fray from the BJP, while former Union minister Salman Khurshid’s wife is among the 627 candidates in the third phase. Lewis Khurshid is the Congress candidate from Farrukhabad Sadar. Aseem Arun, an Additional Director General of Police level officer who left the Indian Police Service (IPS) and joined politics, is also trying his political luck on a BJP ticket from the Sadar assembly constituency of Kannauj in the same phase.

In 2017, the BJP had won 49 out of 59 seats in the third phase, while the SP had to be content with just nine. The Congress got one seat, while the Bahujan Samaj Party could not get a single seat. Voting has been completed for 58 seats in the first phase on February 10 and in the second phase on February 14 for 55 seats. Voting for the seventh phase of the seven-phased assembly elections in the state will be held on March 7. The results will come on March 10.

(input agency)