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An estimated 57 per cent votes were today cast in the sixth and penultimate phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in 68 seats across 13 districts, popularly known as the Jat land, where voting was by and large peaceful. Among the more than 1,000 candidates testing their luck in the sixth phase was Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Ajit Singh’s son Jayant Chaudhury.
In Agra too, there was high voting with the voting percentage crossing 51 percent at 3 p.m., two hours before polling ended. With a total turnout of just 42 percent in 2007, the discussion now centres around which…
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday slammed opposition SP, BSP and BJP “for fooling the people with bogus assurances. “During the last 22 years, SP, BSP and BJP have been fooling the people with bogus assurances in health, education and employment sectors,” he said at election meetings in the district. The Congress leader attacked SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati on the issue of providing jobs to youths.
Rahul, who is on his third visit to Kheri during the ongoing Assembly elections in the state, urged the people to vote Congress to power, saying “Be it ‘cycle’ or ‘elephant’ (SP…
In poll-bound Uttar Pradesh congress has attempted a different kind of social engineering for a bid to beat Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav in their own game. The party has attempted to dent the watertight caste compartments of UP politics by reaching out to sub castes within Yadavs and Rajputs as well.
It is also trying to work upon the wedge between Ghoshi and Kamaria, two powerful groups within Yadavs. Mulayam Singh Yadav belongs to Kamaria Yadavs, while Congress has this time fielded a large number of candidates from Ghoshi Yadavs. Urmila Yadav from Karnal is a Ghoshi Yadav.
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Polling continued at a brisk pace in the sixth phase of UP Assembly elections covering 68 seats with about 50 per cent of the over 2.17 crore voters exercising their franchise till 3PM. A maximum 55.2 per cent polling was recorded in Saharanpur districts. “Polling started at 7 AM and 49.93 per cent votes were polled till 3 PM,” Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha said.
Among other districts, 50.8 per cent votes were polled in Aligarh, 51 per cent each in Agra, 52.14 per cent in Bulandshahr, 436.3 per cent in Gautam Buddha Nagar, 45.2 per cent in Muzaffarnagar, 50 per…
BJP MP Varun Gandhi on Tuesday clarified that he had never stated that Samajwadi Party would form the next government in Uttar Pradesh. Referring to his remarks that appeared in various media recently, Gandhi said he had merely predicted the complete meltdown of the BSP in the current elections, from which other parties including the BJP would gain.
Varun said he was not a psephologist and had made the remarks only after getting reports from the media, which suggested that BJP was set to make substantial gains in the state and SP would also fare better in the 2012 assembly polls…
Thousands of voters queued up outside polling booths almost 38 per cent of the 2.17 crore voters had cast their franchise by 1 pm in sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly election. Discussing the first two hours of polling, Uttar Pradesh Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha said, “While the overall turnout was estimated at 9.7 per cent at 9 am this morning, the highest polling was reported from Hathras where a record 20 per cent was witnessed during the first two hours of the poll.”
While the elections were proceeding peacefully, there were some glitches as well. Team Anna member Arvind…