Polling took place on Thursday, which was the sixth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said it’s time to choose between the BJP and those who support terror.
This was an apparent jab at the Samajwadi Party (SP).
An essential part of the election is coming up soon, and the UP CM said that if more people vote for the BJP, it will help make India’s number one economy, the state, and the country even better.
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When Adityanath spoke, he said it was time to choose between the BJP and people who support terror. This was likely a dig at the Samajwadi Party (SP).
“Elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh are now at a critical point. I think you’ve seen many new things happen in the last five years: a new airport in India, AIIMS, and more. Our lives are at stake. We have to choose between people who support terrorism and us. Each one of your votes will make the state of Uttar Pradesh the country’s best-run one, “Adityanath said that.
Adityanath went to the Gorakhnath Temple in Gorakhpur to pray before the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Many people in Uttar Pradesh go to vote today for the sixth phase of the Assembly elections.
Starting at 7 am, people can vote. It will go on until 6 pm. More than 50 polling stations have been set up to vote in 57 assembly seats in 10 districts, including Gorakhpur and Ambedkarnagar.
Balrampur is one of the districts where voting is taking place. Other districts include Ballia, Basti, and Kushinagar.
Some 2,14,628 electors are expected to vote for 676 candidates.
They will be made up of males and females and third-gender people.
676 candidates were running in the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came out on top of the list of the most influential people in this phase.
The Chief Minister is running in the polls in Gorakhpur Urban, where he lives.
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has put Khwaja Shamsuddin up against Adityanath.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) has put Subhavati Shukla, a former BJP leader, up against Adityanath.
Chetna Pandey, a Congress candidate, will also fight against Adityanath at the same time.
Adityanath is one of the most well-known faces in this phase.
Other prominent candidates are state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu, running for Tamkuhi Raj seat; Swami Prasad Maurya, who left his job as a minister to join the Samajwadi Party and is running for Fazilnagar seat; and Ram Govind Chaudhary, who is running for Bansdih seat.
With Sanjay Gupta and Udaynarayan Gupta on the other side, Ajay Kumar Lallu runs for Tamkuhi Raj’s seat.
People in the Fazilnagar seat will vote for the SP’s Swami Prasad Maurya.
He will compete against the son of an incumbent BJP MLA, Surendra Singh Kushwaha.
Maurya will face Ilyas Ansari from the BSP, Sunil Singh from the Congress, and Harish Chandra Yadav from the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
It’s a race between the SP’s Ram Govind Chaudhary and the Congress’s Puneet Pathak for the seat of Bansdih.
Bachha Pathak, Puneet’s grandfather, used to be a state Congress member.
As an MLA from Bansdih, his grandfather served seven terms from 1967 to 1996.
He was also a member of the UP government.
Ram Govind Chaudhary, the leader of the SP, also faces Ketki Singh from the Nishad Party and Manti Rajbhar from the BSP.
We have to vote in the last phase, called the seventh phase. It will be on March 7. It will be done on March 10.
