BJP National President J P Nadda campaigning in Varanasi for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections, said, "In the next 5 years, we'll start metro services in Agra, Gorakhpur, Varanasi, Prayagraj, and Meerut." He also said that UP has marked the lowest unemployment rate under Yogi government. "Through MSMEs, more than 3 lakh jobs have been created in the state," Nadda added
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to be in Varanasi on March 4 and 5, the last two days of campaigning for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. The BJP's Varanasi city president Vidyasagar Rai on Wednesday said on day one Modi will hold a roadshow in the city area and the next day he will address a public meeting in Khajuri village in Rajatalab. Polling for the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election will be held on March 7 and the results will be declared three days later. Rai said according to the programme, the roadshow of the prime minister will cover the Assembly segments of Varanasi Cantonment, Varanasi North and Varanasi South. Modi will begin his roadshow by garlanding the statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel at the Maldiha crossing. He will also visit the Kashi Vishwanath Temple and offer prayers, he said. On the second day of his stay in Varanasi, Modi will address a public meeting in Khajuri village in Rajatalab, Rai added.
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Two-time legislator Akoijam Mirabai, a minister in the Okram Ibobi Singh-led Congress government of 2012, is seeking election to the Manipur assembly for a third straight term. Mirabai has the distinction of staying with the Manipur unit of the Congress despite a mass exodus from the party, which has fielded her again from the Patsoi assembly constituency. She won a close race for the seat in 2017 and refused to be swayed into defecting from the Congress by any other political party. Read more here
SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar is facing a stern challenge in this eastern Uttar Pradesh assembly constituency as he squares off against Saiyyada Shadab Fatima of the BSP and BJP's Kalicharan Rajbhar in a triangular contest which many people here believe could go right down to the wire. What makes the contest interesting is that the three candidates are sort of veterans in this assembly segment in Ghazipur district but their political affiliations have changed this time. While sitting MLA and Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Prakash Rajbhar, who was a BJP ally in 2017, has now joined hands with the Samajwadi Party, Fatima, who had been a Samajwadi Party minister in the state, is now a Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) candidate. Kalicharan Rajbhar, who has been a two-time BSP MLA, is in the fray this time from the BJP. If Rajbhar versus Rajbhar was tricky enough, Fatima's entry has made the contest even more interesting, set up a triangular contest amid a slew of bipolar fights between the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the BJP in this region.
RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary will be joining Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee for a joint poll rally in Uttar Pradesh's Varanasi on Thursday.
The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), which is fighting the UP assembly elections in tie-up with Yadav's SP and is its major ally for western region of the state, made the announcement on social media Wednesday. The joint rally will be held in Airhe village in Harhua block of Varanasi 12 pm onwards, the RLD said. Varanasi, the parliamentary constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, goes to polls on March 7 during the seventh and last phase of assembly polls in UP.
For long considered as the "Dalit laboratory of the BSP", Mayawati's party is faced with the daunting task of reclaiming its influence in the five assembly seats of the district after flight of her senior legislators to the Samajwadi Party.
Mayawati, who created the new district of Ambedkar Nagar out of Faizabad (now called Ayodhya) during her tenure as chief minister in 1995, held the sway over the area for long before the SP and BJP started denting her citadel in the last two state polls. In the 2012 elections, the SP had wrested from the BSP all the five assembly constituencies -- Katheri, Akbarpur, Jalalpur, Tanda and Alapur-- of Ambedkar Nagar. However, the equation changed in 2017 when the BJP emerged victorious on two seats and the rest three went to Mayawati.
UP Assembly Elections | Yogi Adityanath, 5 ministers in fray in crucial sixth phase on March 3
As many as 57 seats spread across ten districts of Gorakhpur, Ambedkarnagar, Ballia, Balrampur, Basti, Deoria, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar and Siddharthnagar will poll in the sixth phase voting.
Among the prominent candidates whose fate will be sealed on Thursday include Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Agriculture Minister Surya Pratap Shahi, Minister of State for Basic Education Satish Chandra Dwivedi, Health Minister Jai Pratap Singh and Ministers of State Sriram Chauhan and Jai Prakash Nishad.
Swami Prasad Maurya, a former minister in the Adityanath government, is also contesting from Fazilnagar in Kushinagar on Thursday, on SP ticket.
Of the 57 seats, 37 seats have been declared red, where more than three candidates have criminal cases registered against them. The last phase of seven-phased UP election will be held on March 7 and the results will be allowed on March 10.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will stay in Varanasi for three days — from March 3 to March 5, the last day of canvassing for the seventh phase of elections. On March 3, Modi will be addressing public meetings in Jaunpur and Chadauli districts going to polls on March 7, the last round.
As many as 2,14,62,816 people are eligible to seal the fates of 676 candidates in these constituencies. Eleven seats are reserved for Scheduled Caste candidates.
'Dumdaar sarkar' must for development of UP, only a BJP-led government can guarantee it: Yogi Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on March 2 said a "dumdaar sarkar (strong government)" was a must for the all-around development and only a BJP-led dispensation could guarantee it to the people.
“Yogi will do everything to make your life easier under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Adityanath said, asserting he would work for the welfare of all. The people of Uttar Pradesh had seen the workings of three governments led by the Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the BJP and would know the difference.
Record 88.63% turn out in the first phase of Manipur elections
Manipur registered a record voter turn out of 88.63 percent out of a total of 12.09 lakh registered voters for the first phase of the assembly elections for 38 segments, the Chief Electoral Officer said.
Women "displayed more enthusiasm" the CEO said, as 89.96 percent of the female voters exercised their right to vote. The male voter turn out was at 87.29 percent.
Around 176 wheelchairs were also booked through apps by physically disabled voters. Measures like these saw 97 percent of the voters who are 100 years old and above exercising their franchise.
Around 247 of the 253 former militants voted through postal ballot from 13 designated camps in Churachandpur, Pherzawl, Bishnupur and Kangpokpi districts.
Re-polling in Handia in UP's Prayagraj
The Election Commission has ordered re-polling at the Manikpur primary school polling station of Handia constituency in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district.
Re-polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm on March 3, state’s Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said.
The commission ordered re-polling at polling station number 311—Manikpur Handiya primary school— where polling was held on February 27, the statement said.
The decision was taken after some “important documents” went missing from the polling station, it added.
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