AMN / WEB DESK
Polling completed peacefully for the fourth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh. In the phase, 59 seats of 9 districts of state went for the poll. The 9 districts which went for poll today are Pilibhit Lakhimpur Sitapur Hardoi Unnao Lucknow Raebareli Banda and Fatehpur. These districts are spread from Tarai region to Owadh and till Bundelkhand.
The Phase 4 of Uttar Pradesh assembly election recorded 59.12 per cent average turnout till 5 pm.
Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni, whose son Ashish Mishra is an accused in the farmers’ murder case, cast his vote in Lakhimpur Kheri, amid chaos while surrounded by scores of police personnel.
Uttar Pradesh Law Minister Brajesh Pathak who is facing Samajwadi Party candidate and two-time Corporator Surendra Singh Gandhi in the Lucknow Cantonment seat is among the prominent contender in this phase.
In the wake of the Covid pandemic, all necessary arrangements were made for the free fair and corona free polling.
Long queues were seen from early morning at the polling booths which indicated the enthusiasm of the voters In this phase of elections. Barring a few sporadic incidents voting was peaceful in the fourth phase. Voters came out in large numbers to exercise their franchise.
This phase has decided the political fate of 624 candidates including many ministers of the state government like Ashutosh Tandon, Brijesh Pathak, wife of Union Minister Kaushal Kishore, Jaya Devi Samajwadi Party leaders, and former ministers Ravidas Mehrotra, Abhishek Mishra, youngest SP candidate in this election Pooja Shukla, Apna dal candidate and minister in state government Jai Pratap Singh, BSP leader Gaya Charan Dinkar, Congress candidate and mother of Unaao rape case victim Asha Singh. In the last assembly elections, BSP got 51 out of 59 seats while Samajwadi Party bagged four, and Congress and BSP got 2 seats each.