UP Elections Live: 23.78% Voting in Fourth Phase Till 11 AM
- 23.78 percent voting was recorded in the fourth phase till 11 am
- Voting in 53 assembly constituencies in the fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh elections begins
- In all, 1.84 crore voters, including 1,034 voters from the third gender, will use their franchise
- In the 2012 assembly polls, the Congress had managed to wrest only six seats in these constituencies.
- Raebareli, the parliamentary constituency of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, is voting in the fourth phase, though she did not campaign in these elections
- There are a total of 680 candidates in the fray in the fourth phase, of which 61 are women
Banda: 21%
Raebareli: 25.2%
Fatehpur: 22.9%
Jalaun: 24.24%
BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui casts his vote at booth no 84 in Banda district of UP.
An estimated 12 to 15 per cent of voters turned out to exercise their franchise till 10 am during the fourth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh today.
Polling is on for 53 Assembly constituencies spread over 12 districts, including the backward Bundelkhand region.
The pace of voting was initially slow but picked up gradually as the day advanced, the office of UP Chief Electoral Officer said.
West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi casts his vote at booth no 252 in Allahabad.
Villagers boycott polling in Fatehpur's Khaga over developmental issues.
No votes were cast in booths 105 and 106, 9 in booth 107 and 8 at booth 109.
Uttar Pradesh’s BJP Chief Keshav Prasad Maurya casts his vote in Allahabad.
BJP President Amit Shah on Wednesday dubbed the Congress, the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) as "KASAB" – adding yet another acronym in the Uttar Pradesh poll campaign. He said development will elude Uttar Pradesh till "Kasab is laid to rest".
Elaborating on the acronym at an election meeting here, he said, in this election, people of UP should get rid of KASAB. I say it again, people of UP should get rid of Kasab. Do not take any other meaning when I say Kasab. What I mean by KASAB is – KA for Congress, SA for Samajwadi Party and B for BSP.
Read the full story on The Quint.
Congress candidate from Raebareli(Sadar), Aditi Singh casts her vote. She is contesting the polls against BSP's Mohd Shahbaz and BJP's Anita Srivastava.
Union Minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti also casts her vote in Hamirpur.
A day before Raebareli goes to polls, Congress President Sonia Gandhi wrote a “personal” letter to her core constituency, saying that the region and its people have over the years become the “biggest asset” of her life.
Gandhi, who has been absent from her party’s poll campaign across Uttar Pradesh, also took a dig at the BJP-led centre.
Read the full story on The Quint.
People have started casting their votes in polling centres in Jhansi and Raebareli in the fourth phase of elections.
Voting has still not started in booth no 481 in Jalaun because the EVM machine is not working.
SP and BSP supporters got into a fight in Mahoba where four people including Samajwadi Party candidate Siddhgopal Sahu's son were injured.
He was shot and has been rushed to Kanpur for treatment.
Voting in 53 assembly constituencies in the fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh elections began at 7 am on Thursday amid tight security.
BJP’s Siddharth Nath Singh casts his vote in Allahabad.
Uttar Pradesh goes into its fourth phase of polling on Thursday, with 680 candidates fighting for 53 seats.
Allahabad, Raebareli, Jhansi, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Jalaun, Lalitpur, Mahoba, Hamirpur, Banda, Chitrakoot, Fatehpur, and are ready to cast their votes.
Water-scarce and backward Bundelkhand region is also a part of this phase of the polls.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi did not campaign in her constituency Raebareli, a first since 1998 and on Wednesday, the party said "it was a clear sign of generational shift" in the Grand Old Party.
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BJP National Secretary Siddharth Nath Singh will be contesting from Allahabad West. Singh is the grandson of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
BSP leader Gaya Charan Dinkar, who was leader of Opposition in the last Assembly, will be contesting from Naraini.
The fate of 680 candidates will be decided by an electorate of 1.84 crore voters, of which 84 lakh are women and 1,032 are third gender.
The candidates are from 6 national parties, 5 state parties and 87 unrecognised ones. 200 Independent candidates are contesting in the fourth phase of polling.
The candidates with most number of criminal cases against them are from the BJP.
The BSP has the largest number of crorepati candidates contesting.
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In 2012 polls, out of the 53 seats of this phase, the Samajwadi Party won the maximum number with 24, the BJP won 5, the Bahujan Samaj Party won 15, the Congress won 6 and 'others' won 3.
- Raebareli - PECP
- Jhansi Nagar - BJP
- Allahabad West - BSP
- Allahabad North - Congress
- Allahabad South - SP
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