Election 2022 HIGHLIGHTS: SP Coalition Will Cross Over 300 Seats In UP, Says Shivpal Yadav
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Campaigning for the third phase of the UP Assembly polls ended on Friday, with senior leaders of all parties making the last-ditch attempt to woo voters in 59 constituencies spread across 16 districts.
Likewise in Punjab, campaigning ended for the 117 Assembly seats even as political parties made last-minute efforts to mobilise support for their candidates ahead of the February 20 election.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be on a tour of Pilibhit, Sitapur and Lucknow today, where he will address many public meetings. Yogi Adityanath will address a public meeting at 11:00 am at Ramlila Ground, Puranpur, Pilibhit.
Meanwhile, SP National President Akhilesh Yadav will be on a tour of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur and Hardoi today where he will address several public meetings.
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will be on a two-day visit to Rae Bareli from today. She will participate in the election campaign in support of Congress candidates.
Additionally, Union Defense Minister Shri Rajnath Singh will address several public meetings in Gonda and Lucknow today.
Rajnath Singh will address a public meeting at 12:15 pm at Mahakavi Tulsidas Mahavidyalaya, Paraspur, Gonda. At the same time, at 01:15 pm, he will address a public meeting at Jagdamba Sharan Mahavidyalaya, Belsar, Tarabganj, Gonda.
The campaign for Manipur also begins as the northeastern state is the focus of parties now.
UP polls: Bhupesh Baghel campaigns for Congress candidates in Lucknow
Lucknow, Feb 19 (PTI) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel on Saturday alleged that the BJP in Uttar Pradesh has no issue to talk about other than conversion and communalism.
Addressing public meetings in support of Congress candidates in Lucknow, Baghel said the election results this time would clearly reflect the triumph of issues such as inflation, unemployment and the politics of caste and religion because this time, people are voting on these.
"The BJP does not have any issue other than conversion and communalism but 'kath ki handi baar-baar nahi chadhti (raising the same issue again and again does not yield results every time)'," he said.
The Chhattisgarh chief minister claimed that the BJP has lagged behind in the first two phases as the trend is now clearly visible and people are not voting on the basis of caste or religion.
Under the BJP government, farmers, labourers and traders are troubled, he said. Jobs have been lost, inflation is at its peak and farmers are not getting proper price for their crops, Baghel added.
In Lucknow, polling will be held in the fourth phase on February 23.
The Congress leader also took part in door-to-door campaigns.
Elections 2022: Voting For Multi-Cornered Punjab Polls On Sunday, Third Phase In UP To Seal Akhilesh's Fate
Elections 2022: Voting For Punjab Polls On Sunday, Third Phase In UP To Seal Akhilesh's Fate
Elections 2022: Voting in Punjab will be held from 8 am to 6 pm. In Uttar Pradesh, the polling will take place between 7 am and 6 pm.
UP polls: All members of SP patron Mulayam Singh's family to cast votes at booth number 239 in Saifai tomorrow
Etawah: Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and all members of his family are slated to cast their votes at booth number 239 of their native village Saifai, in the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls scheduled to be held on Sunday.
Mulayam Singh Yadav's native village Saifai falls under the Jaswantnagar assembly constituency in the Etawah district. The Jaswantnagar seat has been held by Mulayam's brother Shivpal Singh Yadav since 1996. The entire Yadav family including Mulayam Singh Yadav, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, Shivpal Yadav, Dimple Yadav, Prateek Yadav, Ankur Yadav, Abhishek Yadav, Aparna Yadav, Tej Pratap Yadav, Sarla Yadav, Premlata Yadav, Abhayram Yadav, Dharmendra Yadav, Ram Gopal Yadav and Akshay Yadav will cast their vote at the same pooling booth in Saifai. The voter list has been put up at booth number 239 of Saifai.
Former Chief Minister and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav's name is at the serial number 568 in the voter list while his wife Dimple Yadav at 572. The name of Aparna Yadav, the younger daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav, who joined BJP recently, is also listed on the same booth at voter number 586. However, whether Aparna Yadav will come to cast her vote with the family is yet to be seen.
Two phases of the seven phased polling for the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly have been completed. The third phase of the elections is scheduled for February 20. Polling for the remaining phases will take place on February 23, 27 and March 3 and 7.
The counting of votes will take place on March 10. In the 2017 Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party bagged 312 seats out of the 403-seat Uttar Pradesh Assembly while Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) won 19 and Congress could manage to win only seven seats. The rest of the seats were bagged by other candidates. (ANI)
Punjab election: Security preparation ahead of polling
Around 4000 police officers including CAPF have been deployed across Punjab. Vulnerable polling locations have been kept under strict surveillance. Webcasting and cameras surveillance being done on all booths: Charanjit Singh Sohal, SSP Moga
— ANI (@ANI) February 19, 2022
Punjab will go to polls tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/2AOTc8Ie7d
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Punjab election: Pick-up and drop facility for persons with disabilities, elderly voters
Chandigarh, Feb 19 (PTI) Pick-up and drop facility will be provided to senior citizens and persons with disabilities to and from polling booths, Punjab Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju said on Saturday, a day ahead of the elections to the 117-member state assembly.
Addressing the media here, Raju said the state machinery is working round the clock to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections.
Polling will be held from 8 am till 6 pm, said a functionary of the office of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO).
Results of the Punjab assembly polls will be declared on March 10, along with those of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Goa.
Replying to a question, Raju said pick-up and drop facility to and from polling booths will be provided to senior citizens, elderly and persons with disabilities (PwD) for voting.
Arrangements in this regard has been made in each assembly constituency, he added.
There can be battery-run vehicles, auto rickshaws and minivans, Raju said, adding that young people casting their votes for the first time, will be given flowers.
He urged electors to follow Covid-appropriate behaviour at polling stations and added that masks, gloves and sanitisers will be provided.
Dustbins and coloured bags will be placed for disposal of Covid- waste material, the CEO said.
He said that food and refreshments will be provided to all polling staff.
On whether a voter should carry Covid vaccination certificate to a polling station, Raju said, There should be no confusion. Voting does not have any connection with vaccination.
A person carrying his voter card has a right to cast his vote, he added.
To a question on deployment of security personnel for the polls, the CEO said that 700 companies of central armed police forces have been deployed.
Besides, the state police personnel will also be in duty, he added.
Out of the total 1,304 candidates in the fray, 93 are women and two transgenders, while 461 are constesting the elections as Independents, Raju said.
As many as 28,328 ballot units and 24,740 EVM-VVPATs are being used in this election, he said.
There are six assembly constituencies -- Kharar, Sahnewal, Ludhiana South, Payal, Patiala Rural and Patiala -- with two ballot units, he added.
There are 24,740 polling stations in the state and out of them, 2,013 have been identified as critical, while as many as 196 will be pink polling stations for women and 70 will be managed by PwDs, Raju said.
He said webcasting of all polling stations will be done.
A total of 2.50 lakh people including polling staff, security men and others, have been deployed for the Sunday polls, he said.
The budget size of the elections was pegged at Rs 340 crore, Raju said.
Ever since the model code of conduct came into force, various enforcement teams have made seizures of liquor, unaccounted cash and psychotropic substances worth Rs 500.70 crore.
In view of the polls, a ban on sale of alcohol in Punjab started at 6 pm on February 18. It will end on February 20 after conclusion of polling.
Raju also said that the ban extends to liquor vends falling in a radius of three kilometres from the Punjab border in neighbouring states of Jammu and Kashmir, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, and also the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
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