Uttar Assembly elections: 8.5% polling in first two hours of voting in phase 7
The Hindu
A total of 613 candidates are in the fray on various seats, including those falling in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary segment Varanasi.
Voting for the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats began on a dull note on March 6, with only 8.5% of voters exercising their right in the first two hours.
Voting started at 7 a.m. and will end at 4 p.m. in Chakia (Chandauli), Robertsganj and Duddhi (Sonbhadra) seats while in the rest of the segments, it will continue till 6 p.m.
The districts where polls are underway in this phase are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.
The voting percentage till 9 a.m. is 8.58%, according the ECI’s Voter Turnout app.
While Azamgarh witnessed 8.08% voting, Bhadohi saw 7.41%, Chandauli 8.39%, Ghazipur 8.39%, Jaunpur 8.99%, Mau 9.97%, Mirzapur 8.81%, Sonbhadra 8.39% and Varanasi 8.90%, it said.
A total of 613 candidates are in the fray on various seats, including those falling in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary segment Varanasi.
The fate of Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party president Om Prakash Rajbhar and several State Ministers will be decided in this round, in which 2.06 crore people are eligible to vote.
The election authorities are gearing up for the counting of votes cast in the simultaneous elections to Lok Sabha and Assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, scheduled to be held on June 4. The Collectors and Election Officers of Visakhapatnam, Anakapalli and Alluri Sitharama Raju (ASR) districts said on May 23 (Thursday) that their teams were ready for the counting of votes.
Responding to the prolonged water scarcity, the residents of the area took to the streets in protest on Wednesday. The protest, which drew attention to their plight, stopped only after the intervention of the police. It was not until 1.30 p.m. that a 4000-litre tanker was finally delivered by BWSSB, providing relief to the water-starved residents.