Hemant Singh – Mumbai Uncensored, 26th February 2022
UP election 5th phase: 61 Assembly seats up for a fight
Tomorrow UP will go to the polls in the 5th phase of its Assembly elections, covering 61 constituencies, mainly located in the eastern part of the state, over 61 seats across 12 districts, the main constituencies include Pratapgarh, Prayagraj, Ayodhya, Amethi, Chitrakoot Rae Bareli, Gonda, and Sultanpur.
There are 692 candidates in the election fight, in the 5th phase.
Among those contesting the elections are UP Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who is contesting from Sirathu assembly segment, Congress party legislative leader Aradhana Mishra, independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya from Kunda seat, and UP cabinet ministers Siddharth Nath Singh from Allahabad West, Nand Gopal Gupta Nadi from Allahabad South and Raj
The campaign for the fifth phase ended at 6 pm on Friday, State’s Chief Election Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said.
The voting will start at 7 am and end at 6 pm and the remaining two phases will take place on March 3 and March 7 while the counting of votes will be held on March 10.
Odisha Panchayat polls: BJP in lead
State Election Commission (SEC) officials said counting for 315 Zilla Parishad Zone seats began at 8 a.m. on Saturday under strict compliance with COVID-19 guidelines. Trends are currently available for 299 Zilla Parishad seats with BJD leading in 249 seats, BJP in 32, and Congress in 13, they said.
As per early trends in Odisha Panchayat polls, the ruling Biju Janata Dal was leading in 249 Zilla Parishad Zone seats, while BJP candidates were leading in 30 and the Congress in 13, election officials said. Meanwhile, the counting of votes for 315 Zilla Parishad Zone seats began on Saturday at 8 am in various block headquarters under strict compliance with COVID-19 guidelines, election officials said.
Trends are available for 299 Zilla Parishad seats with BJD ahead in 249 seats, BJP in 32, Congress in 13, on the other hand, the counting of the remaining 307 Zilla Parishad zone seats will take place on February 27 and the 229 Zilla Parishad zone seats on February 29.
If discrepancies are found between the ballot paper account prepared by the presiding officer and the actual ballot paper in the ballot box, the actual ballot paper will be considered, and the counting will be carried out accordingly, SEC secretary R N Sahu said.
The counting of votes will be done from Saturday, for 3 days and the polling was held in five different phases on the 16th, 18th, 20th, 22nd, and 24th of February. Overall voter turnout this time was 78.6 per cent, slightly higher than the 78.03 percent in 2017.
According to Sahu, the counting is done strictly following COVID-19 guidelines, and CCTV cameras are installed in counting halls. Each counting table has one counting supervisor, two counting assistants, and one fourth class employee…
After the ballot papers have been sorted by colour, the 50 bundles of ballot papers are being counted. It was reported that 2.2 lakh candidates contested the elections, but 36,523 ward members, 126 sarpanches, 326 panchayat members, and one Zilla Parishad member were declared uncontested winners by the SEC.
Stay tuned for more upcoming poll news.
