Prime Minister will address election rallies in Manipur’s Imphal and Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich today. The fourth phase polling in 59 seats of Uttar Pradesh will be held on Wednesday while the first of the two-phased elections in Manipur will be held on February 28. The high-decibel campaigning for the fourth phase of the UP Assembly polls came to an end on Monday. Of the 59 seats, the BJP had won 51 in the 2017 Assembly elections, four had gone to the Samajwadi Party, and three to the Bahujan Samaj Party.
Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said Uttar Pradesh under the rule of the SP and BSP was a “hotbed of terrorism”, while applauding the Yogi Aditynath dispensation for eliminating mafia and preventing riots in the last five years. At an election rally in Pilibhit, Shah alleged that Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra responding to a question on terrorism in an interview had said they did not have time for such “useless talk”.
Voting for 59 Assembly constituencies spread across nine districts of Uttar Pradesh will take place in fourth of the seven-phased polls on Wednesday. The polling will decide the fate of 624 candidates is districts of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda and Fatehpur. Read More
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Pre-poll surveys have predicted a close contest between the BJP and the SP-RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh, with the former having an edge over the latter. The Yogi Adityanath government is seeking to retain power on its claim of developments works and improving the law and order situation of the state. On the other hand, the SP-RLD alliance banks on the Jat-Muslim vote bank in western Uttar Pradesh.