Uttar Pradesh Gram Panchayat Election 2021 Phase 3 Polling News Updates: About 62 per cent turnout was recorded till 5 pm in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh panchayat polls Monday, when two security personnel died after falling ill while on election duty. Scuffles and stone-pelting were reported from Firozabad district where a man was injured. Over 2.72 lakh candidates are in the fray for 2.14 lakh seats across 20 districts in this round of the four-phase election, a mammoth exercise held in the shadow of the coronavirus pandemic.
A State Election Commission official said 62.35 per cent of the registered voters had turned up between 7 am and 5 pm, with another hour to go before the close of polling. The phase covered the districts of Shamli, Meerut, Moradabad, Pilibhit, Kasganj, Firozabad, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Unnao, Amethi, Barabanki, Balrampur, Siddharthanagar, Deoria, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Ballia. Among them, Meerut recorded the highest poll percentage of 69.30 till 5 pm. Seventy-one per cent polling was recorded in the first two phases. Polling for the fourth phase will be held Thursday and the counting on May 2.
The Allahabad High Court has asked the Uttar Pradesh government to conclude the panchayat election process by May 25. Poll-related clashes took place in Firozabad districts Nagla Pardaman and Barauli villages, officials said.
Home guard Deputy Singh (50) took ill while going to a polling centre in Shikohabad in Forozabad district. He died in hospital, a police officer said. In a similar case, a head constable deployed in Ballia’s Bansdih area to maintain law and order during the polling died after a dip in the body oxygen level. Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Yadav said Kamla Singh Yadav (50) complained of difficulty in breathing and was taken to the district hospital.
Doctors there referred him to a higher medical centre and he was then brought to a hospital in Buxar district in neighbouring Bihar, where he died during treatment, the official said. He said it is not known whether the head constable was tested for COVID-19. In this phase alone, 10,416 candidates are in the fray for 746 posts of zila panchayat members and 88,584 people are contesting for 18,530 posts of kshetra panchayat members. As many as 1,16,162 candidates are contesting for 14,379 village panchayats.
UP Panchayat Election LIVE: Nearly 50 per cent polling was recorded till 3 pm in most districts.
Kanpur Dehat: 47.31 per cent
Unnao: 53 per cent
Siddharthnagar: 48 per cent
Jalaun: 49 per cent
Hamirpur: 44 per cent
Fatehpur: 47.87
Auraiya: 51.3
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election 2021: Over 30 per cent polling has been recorded in most distrcts going to polls in phase-3.
Kasganj: 38.73 per cent
Unnao: 33 per cent
Firozabad: 39.67
Shamli: 39.4 per cent
Siddharthnagar: 36 per cent
Deoria: 35.22 per cent
Hamirpur: 36.49 per cent
Fatehpur: 35.26 per cent
Jalaon: 34 per cent
Uttar Pradesh Panchayat Election LIVE: Angry villagers pelted stones at SDM and CO's vehicles in Mirzapur. They were angry over alleged fake voting at Gamhapur village in Mirzapur.
UP Panchayat Election 2021: Over 30 per cent tunrout has been recorded in most districts going to polls in the third phase of Uttar Pradesh Election 2021.
Unnao: 33 per cent
Kanpur Dehat: 34 per cent
Firozabad: 39
UP Panchayat Election 2021: About 10.27 per cent voters exercised their franchise in the first two hours for the third phase of the panchayat elections which began on Monday with more than 2.72 lakh candidates in the fray in over 2.14 lakh seats across 20 districts of Uttar Pradesh. Polling is underway in Shamli, Meerut, Moradabad, Pilibhit, Kasganj, Firozabad, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Unnao, Amethi, Barabanki, Balrampur, Siddharthanagar, Deoria, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Ballia. "Voting started at 7 am on a peaceful note. It will continue till 6 pm. In the first two hours (till 9 am) 10.27 per cent voting was done," a State Election Commission official said. While Kanpur Dehat and Moradabad each recorded the highest 12 per cent polling, Deoria had minimum of nine per cent voting till 9 am.
UP Panchayat Election 2021: Incident of firing has been reported from Jasrana block of Firozabad. The incident happened over fake voting in panchayat polls. People also indulged in sticks fight. According to reports, people also tried to take away the ballot boxes. However, the DM and SP arrived at the sopt on time.
UP Panchayat Election LIVE: A history sheeter today fired at the son of a panchayat candidate in Makhi, Unnao.
Till 9 am, nearly 11 per cent polling was recorded in the district.
UP panchayat election 2021: Voting numbers are slowly coming in from various districts going to polls today.
Jalaun has reported 8.5 per cent voting.
Kanpur Dehat recorded 12 per cent turnout.
Fatehpur reported 9.83 per cent polling.
Auraiya reported 9.86 per cent polling.
Siddharthnagar recorded 11 per cent voting
UP Panchayat Election 2021: Voing was delayed by an hour after a candidate found his poll symbol missing from the ballot paper.
UP Panchayat Polls LIVE: A village development officer here was suspended on Sunday for campaigning for his brother, who is contesting in the ongoing panchayat elections. District Development Officer Rajit Ram Mishra said village development officer Girish Kumar Pandey posted in Beruarbari development block has been suspended for flouting the model code of conduct and campaigning for his brother Nitish Pandey, who is contesting for the post of village pradhan in Pindhara village under Bansdih block. Departmental action has been initiated against the village development officer. (PTI)
UP Panchayat Election 2021: People queue up to cast their votes for the third phase of UP Panchayat polls. Visuals from Devapur Primary School in Moradabad.