Battle for UP: seventh part marks finish of fiercely contested ballot

By IANS

LUCKNOW: As the curtain comes down on the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, with only a few hours left for the ultimate and seventh part of polling on Monday, the stakes have reached an all-time excessive for main political gamers in Uttar Pradesh.

A complete of 54 Assembly constituencies of Purvanchal will go for polling on March 7 whereas counting for all of the phases will likely be achieved on March 10.

The districts going to polls within the ultimate part are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.

According to the Chief Electoral Officer, Ajay Kumar Shukla, all obligatory preparations have been made totally free, truthful and clear polling within the seventh part.

A complete of 613 candidates will likely be attempting their luck on this part on the 54 seats which embrace 11 reserved for the Scheduled Castes and two for the Scheduled Tribes by an citizens consisting round 2.06 crores.

This ultimate spherical will even be a check of the alliances carved by each the BJP and Samajwadi Party with small caste-based events.

BJP’s allies Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Nishad Party and Akhilesh Yadav’s new buddies Apna Dal (Ok), Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) of Om Prakash Rajbhar and others have been attempting to rally their supporters.

Once thought-about a stronghold of the Samajwadi Party, the area noticed BJP making inroads in 2017 by successful 29 seats together with its allies Apna Dal (4) and SBSP (3).

The BSP bought six seats and Samajwadi Party 11 seats.

For the Samajwadi Party, its patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav made one other uncommon look in Jaunpur to drum up help for Lucky Yadav, son of his long-time affiliate late Parasnath Yadav within the fray from Malhani seat.

Mulayam Singh had earlier campaigned for his son and social gathering president Akhilesh Yadav on Karhal seat in Mainpuri.

Prominent contestants on this part embrace UP ministers Neelkanth Tiwari, Anil Rajbhar, Ravindra Jaiswal, Girish Yadav and Rama Shankar Singh Patel.

Dara Singh Chauhan, who had resigned from the Yogi Adityanath cabinet and joined the Samajwadi Party, can also be contesting from Ghosi in Mau.

SBSP president Om Prakash Rajbhar (Zahoorabad), Dhananjay Singh (Malhani-Jaunpur) as JD(U) candidate and Abbas Ansari, son of mafia turned politician Mukhtar Ansari, from Mau Sadar seat are different distinguished candidates within the ultimate part.

The BJP goes all out to retain its bastion whereas the Samajwadi Party is eyeing to regain the constituencies it received within the 2012 Assembly elections.

Also, the seventh and final part of UP Assembly elections will likely be a litmus check for allies on each the sides– from Anupriya Patel within the BJP-led alliance to Om Prakash Rajbhar within the SP-led alliance.

In this election, the BJP has fielded 48 candidates out of 54 seats on the social gathering image whereas its ally Apna Dal (S) and Nishad Party have fielded 3-3 candidates every.

On the opposite hand, Samajwadi Party has fielded 45 candidates on its image whereas its ally SBSP has fielded 7 candidates and Apna Dal (Ok) has fielded two candidates.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi together with UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, BJP president J.P. Nadda, Union Ministers, Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah, have been extensively campaigning in Purvanchal to repeat its 2017 success story.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been tenting at Kabir Chaura Math in Varanasi in an try and galvanise the Dalit voters in Purvanchal, who’re in important numbers right here.