The sixth round of voting in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 57 seats began today (March 3) at 7 a.m., determining the fate of political heavyweights like incumbent Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress’ Ajay Kumar Lallu, and Samajwadi Party’s Swami Prasad Maurya.
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Voting for 292 of the 403 assembly seats has already taken place, and the remaining two phases of the UP assembly elections will take place in the state’s Purvanchal area, where 111 seats are up for grabs.
Today is the concluding phase of voting in the remaining constituencies, with 57 seats across ten districts up for grabs.
Ambedkarnagar, Ballia, Balrampur, Basti, Deoria, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Sant Kabir Nagar, and Siddharthnagar are the districts where voting is taking place today.
Yogi Adityanath is fighting his first assembly elections from the Gorakhpur Urban seat, state Congress’ Ajay Kumar Lallu is contesting from the Tamkuhi Raj constituency, and Swami Prasad Maurya, who left the BJP to join the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP, is the SP’s candidate from Fazilnagar.
