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In first phase UP assembly Polls impressive 62-64% polling was registered during in the 55 districts. the rains playing spoilsport in the morning. the state now has six more phases of polling left that will span over the next 25 days, finally determining who clinches this make-or-break electoral battle.
Polling was held in the 10 districts of Sitapur, Barabanki, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Shravasti, Balrampur, Gonda, Siddharth Nagar and Basti amid tight security.
The election fever is gripping the state. With UP going to assembly poll in February, political parties are looking up to Bollywood personalities to canvass for them. While some parties have already declared their lists of star campaigners, others are likely to submit their lists soon.
The Bharatiya Janata Party will rope in only those Bollywood stars who are their party members. Rajya Sabha member Hema Malini, MP Shatrughan Sinha are among those who are actively involved in the politics. Besides, famous television star Smriti Irani, Suresh Oberoi and Vani Tripathi will also campaign for the party.
The Bharatiya Janata Party kick started its campaign for the UP assembly polls by releasing its manifesto opposing religion-based reservation and focusing on issues like crime and corruption. With its main poll plank for the assembly elections being provision of an “honest” and “transparent” government if voted to power, the party’s promises included employment for the youth and education for girls.
campaign will start from January 20 by launching a ten-day ‘Parivartan Padyatra’ in Noida, Dadri and Jewar assembly segments. “The Padyatra programme will continue till January 30,” said Shrikant Sharma, BJP national media convener in Noida. He said the foot…
The Congress party strongholds Amethi and Rae Bareli ahead of UP Assembly polls, Priyanka Gandhi today told party workers to bury internal differences for the party’s success while making it clear that groupism will not be tolerated, To keep a watch on groupism, flying squad teams would be constituted at the village level which would be known by a secret code, Priyanka, who began her three-day tour of Amethi and Rae Bareli, told the workers of Tiloi Assembly segment, according to party sources.
Time is very short, party workers should reach people in villages and inform the electorate about welfare schemes…
Congress has begun the process of selection of candidates for the 2012 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections and it is likely to be completed by next April, party general secretary Digvijay Singh said.
“The party has started the process of selection of candidates for the UP Assembly elections and its observers are moving in the state,” Singh said while addressing a backward convention organised by the Congress.
After November, suggestions on probable candidates will be taken from block, tehsil, city and district units.
“Efforts will be made to distribute tickets by April next year so that they get at least one-year time to prepare…