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Among the prominent candidates in this phase are Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party’s president Om Prakash Rajbhar from Zahoorabad, Tourism Minister Neelkanth Tiwari (Varanasi South), Anil Rajbhar (Shivpur-Varanasi), Ravindra Jaiswal (Varanasi North), Girish Yadav (Jaunpur) and Ramashankar Singh Patel (Marihan-Mirzapur). Dhananjay Singh (Malhani-Jaunpur) and Abbas Ansari, the son of mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, from Mau Sadar seat are also contesting in this phase.
The curtain was lifted from a two-month-long campaign on Saturday that saw political parties doing business on issues including Covid-19, law and order, farmers’ protests and the economy.
On Monday, the election process that has been going on for almost a month in UP will also end. The first phase of polling was held on February 10. Counting of votes will take place on March 10.
In the final phase, about 2.06 crore voters will exercise their franchise in 54 seats, which include 11 SC and two ST constituencies.
Monday’s polling will also be an acid test of the alliance between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP) with smaller caste-based parties. In this election, BJP has tied up with Apna Dal (Sonelal) and Nishad Party, while SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has joined hands with Apna Dal (K) and Om Prakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP).
In the 2017 assembly elections, 29 of these 54 seats were won by the BJP and seven by its allies. SP had won 11 seats and BSP had won six. In the 2012 elections, the SP won 34, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) seven and the BJP just four of them. Three seats were won by the Congress and five other smaller parties.
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