Uttar Pradesh Elections 2017 (Graphics): Touch and go seats in Phase 1

Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) their body painted with tje BJP symbol cheer at a state assembly election rally in Ghaziabad on February 8, 2017, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. Five Indian states - Punjab, Goa, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh - will elect new governments over the next five weeks with results of all set to be announced on March 11. / AFP PHOTO / PRAKASH SINGH

New Delhi: Nearly 2.6 crore people in 73 constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh will be eligible to vote on Saturday in the first of the seven phases of high-stake Assembly elections, seen as a litmus test for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's nearly three-year rule. Graphics credit: KBK