In Uttar Pradesh, voting for the third and last phase of urban local bodies elections passed off by and large peacefully Wednesday. Polling was held in 233 local bodies spread over in 26 districts including five municipal corporations of Saharanpur, Moradabad, Bareilly, Firozabad and Jhansi, 76 Nagar Palika Parishad and 152 Nagar Panchayats. A total of 28135 candidates are in the fray.
10817 polling booths were put up for over 94 lakh voters. The voting process was webcast from one thousand hyper-sensitive polling booths.
Several complaints were received about missing names from voters lists. People have lodged complaints about not receiving voter slips from BLOs in many segments.
There are reports of police using force against people protesting against missing names from voters lists in Barabanki and Fatehpur districts.
An incident of firing is also reported from Etah district.