The last phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections has begun. All eyes are on the battle for votes in and around Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency, Varanasi.
Varanasi and its eight neighbouring districts will vote in the last round on March 7.
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Cabinet Minister Anil Rajbhar’s fate is to be sealed.
Many senior UP government ministers will find out how they will vote in the seventh phase.
Anil Rajbhar is the Backward Classes Welfare Minister. Neelkanth Tiwari is the Minister of Culture (Independent Charge), Girish Yadav is the Minister of Housing and Urban Planning, and Ravindra Jaiswal is the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for the stamp, court fee and registration department.
Minister of State for Power Ramashankar Singh Patel, Minister of State for Cooperatives Sangeeta Yadav Balwant, and Minister of State Sanjeev Gond are influential.
BJP rebel Dara Singh Chauhan is also in the fray.
The last phase will also decide the fates of BJP rebels like Dara Singh Chauhan, a former Cabinet Minister who is now running for the SP.
Durga Prasad Yadav is another essential candidate running for office in the seventh phase of the election.
Allama Azmi, Shailendra Yadav, Vijay Mishra, Omprakash Rajbhar, Tufani Saroj, Dhananjay Singh, and the son of the mafia boss Mukhtar Ansari are some of the other well-known names.
Varanasi, Azamgarh, and Vindhyachal will also vote in the last round.
There are 54 seats up for election on March 7, and they are in Azamgarh and Mau, as well as Mau, Jaunpur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi, Sonbhadra, and Bhadohi in the state of Mau.
TO KEEP ITS GRIP ON POWER, the BJP needs to win a majority of the 54 seats in the end round of the 2024 general election.
The Samajwadi Party is a significant threat to the BJP’s power.
In 2017, the BJP-led coalition won all eight assembly seats in Varanasi, and it did the same in most of the seats in the nearby districts. This was thanks to the “Modi wave.”seventh phase of UP polls
