UP Elections 2012

UP Polls: 38.76% polling recorded till 1 pm

February 23rd, 2012

Uttar Pradesh polls, 38.76 %  polling recorded till 1 pm in the fifth phase of assembly elections, covering 49 seats spread over 13 districts, including Bundelkhand region. Polling started at 7 am amidst tight security arrangements and 23.75 per cent votes were reportedly cast by 11 am.

Polling is underway in Firozabad, Kanshiram Nagar, Etah, Mainpuri, Etawah, Auraiya, Ramabainagar, Kanpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Mahoba districts. The polling is being held at 17,267 polling stations at 11,745 centres. While 2,104 stations have been identified as sensitive, 2,256 have been marked as hyper-sensitive.

23.75% polling till 11 am in 5th phase

February 23rd, 2012

Polling in Uttar Pradesh assembly elections recorded 23.75 % by 11 am in the fifth phase of assembly elections, covering 49 seats spread over 13 districts, including Bundelkhand region. Polling started at 7 am amidst tight security arrangements and 9.88 per cent votes were cast in the first two hours of voting, Chief Electoral Officer of UP Umesh Sinha said.

Fate of 829 candidates, including that of Leader of Opposition in the state assembly Shivpal Singh Yadav, BJP leader Uma Bharati and former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh would be decided by more than 1.56 crore electorate. Maximum 13.5 per cent…

UP Polls: 9.88 % polling in first two hours

February 23rd, 2012

Polling for the fifth phase of UP assembly elections started at 7 AM amidst tight security arrangements, 9.88 per cent votes were cast in the first two hours of voting. covering 49 seats spread over 13 district, including Bundelkhand region.  Chief Electoral Officer of UP Umesh Sinha said here.

Maximum 13.5 per cent votes were polled in Mainpuri, followed by 13.33 per cent in Etah district. Minimum 8 per cent polling was registered in Hamirpur and Etawah districts.

Fifth phase polls acid test for Mulayam, Uma Bharti

February 23rd, 2012

The prestige of Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav and that of Bhartiya Janata Party star campaigner Uma Bharti will be at stake during the fifth round of the seven-phased Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections on Thursday. Sharat Pradhan reports.

As many as 741 candidates are in the fray for 49 seats spread across 13 districts where 1.56 crore electors are expected to cast their vote at 17,267 polling centres. The only other prominent leader, whose prestige would be at test in this phase is Union Coal minister Shree Prakash Jaiswal , who is the sitting Congress member of Parliament from…

Mulayam willing for alliance with Congress: Rahul

February 23rd, 2012

Congress star campaigner Rahul Gandhi in a public rally in Moradabad said the Samajwadi Party was keen on forging an alliance with the Congress for the Uttar Pradesh assembly poll but his party had rejected it. Our alliance is only with the people,” the Gandhi scion said. the Congress general secretary accused Mulayam of making promises to Muslims on job quota which he could not fulfil.

If the SP supremo is sincere about giving quota to backward Muslims, then he should try to emulate the track record of Congress-ruled states including Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. But he will never do it,…

5th phase poll a decisive test for SP

February 23rd, 2012

UP assembly election,  the fifth phase  of polls  may form the very foundation of Samajwadi Party’s prospects in terms of party’s final tally. This is primarily because more than 13.5% of the region’s electorate belongs to the Yadav community – making it the ‘Yadav land’ of Uttar Pradesh and an obvious “traditional stronghold” of SP. But snubbed by the voters in the last assembly election and then in Lok Sabha by-poll, the ‘dhartiputra’ is leaving no stone unturned to reclaim the lost ground.

Mulayam had held the maximum number of public meetings in Mainpuri, Etah, Etawah, and Kanpur Dehat as compared…

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