Uttar Pradesh Polls Highlights: 55.31% (Approx) Voter Turnout Recorded As Voting Concludes For Fifth Phase
Uttar Pradesh Phase 5 Polls Highlights: Around 2.24 crore voters exercised their franchise in the fifth phase of UP Assembly Polls in the districts of Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabanki, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda.
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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls: 55.31% (Approx) Voter Turnout Recorded As Voting Concludes For Fifth Phase. Voter Turnout highest in Chitrakoot at 62.27%
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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls 2022: Voting for 5th phase concludes in Pratapgarh
Pratapgarh, UP: Polling officials seal Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) & VVPATs, post the conclusion of the 5th phase of #UttarPradeshElections2022
Visuals from Polling booth No 13, Sangramgarh pic.twitter.com/0e5oZNVw1Q
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 27, 2022
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Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022: 53.98 % voters turnout recorded till 5 pm in the fifth phase. Polling highest in Chitrakoot district with 59.64% voter turnout.
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Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls 2022: SP candidate, supporters booked for rape, assault
Hours before Gonda went to polls on Sunday, Samajwadi Party candidate from Colonelganj Assembly constituency, his brothers and supporters were booked for allegedly raping a woman and beating her up.
Police said they booked SP candidate Yogesh Pratap Singh and others on Saturday night after they allegedly barged into the residence of the woman, and assaulted her and her family members for supporting the BJP’. -
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Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022 | We’re also planning that in the next five years atleast one person of every family in Uttar Pradesh will be provided with government jobs, employment or self-employment opportunities: UP CM Yogi Adityanath at a rally in Chauri Chaura, Gorakhpur
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UP polls a fight between dynasts, diehard nationalists: PM Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Uttar Pradesh elections are a fight between the dynasts and diehard nationalists, which the opposition parties do not understand. Addressing his second election rally of the day in Deoria, Modi attacked previous governments in Uttar Pradesh, saying they shut sugar mills and didn’t clear dues of sugarcane farmers.
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Fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022: 46.28 % voters turnout recorded till 3 pm
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Additional Chief Electoral Officer, BD Ram Tiwari, Lucknow: 34.83% voter turnout recorded till 1 pm in the fifth phase of UP Assembly polls. There was some issue at a polling station in Pratapgarh. A team of Police and polling officers has reached the site. Necessary actions are being taken.
UP Election 2022 Phase 5 Voting: A total of 55.31% (approx) voter turnout was recorded until 5 pm, as polling concluded for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections on Sunday (February 27). The fifth phase will decide the fate of 692 candidates in the fray for 61 assembly seats across 12 districts of the state. Prominent faces in the fray for the fifth phase include Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who is contesting from the Sirathu assembly seat in the Kaushambi district. He is facing Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) candidate Pallavi Patel. Amethi and Raebareli, once considered Congress bastions, and Ayodhya, the epicentre of the Ram temple movement, will too vote on Sunday. Other ministers in the fray are Siddharth Nath Singh from Allahabad West, Rajendra Singh, alias Moti Singh, from Patti (Pratapgarh), Nand Gopal Gupta Nadi from Allahabad South and Ramapati Shastri from Mankapur (Gonda). Raghuraj Pratap Singh, alias Raja Bhaiya, who is the MLA from Kunda since 1993, is once again in the fray from his party Jansatta Dal, with old aide Gulshan Yadav contesting against him on a Samajwadi Party ticket. With the completion of polling on Sunday, Uttar Pradesh will have voted on 292 of the total 403 seats in the Assembly. The last two phases of the elections will be held on March 3 and March 7. Around 2.24 crore voters will exercise their franchise in this phase in the districts of Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabanki, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda. Polling for the fifth phase started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm.
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