The battle for Uttar Pradesh has begun today with polling in 58 Assembly constituencies spread across 11 districts in the western part of the politically crucial state.
The voting has started at 7 am and is being held according to the Covid-19 guidelines issued by the Election Commission. It is taking place at 25,849 polling stations and is scheduled to continue till 6 pm.
Eleven districts that are going to the polls are Shamli, Meerut, Hapur, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Aligarh, Agra, Gautam Buddha Nagar, and Mathura.
As many as 623 candidates, including 73 women candidates, are in the fray and around 2.27 crore people are eligible to vote in the first phase.
Kairana has been at the centre of political squabble and has emerged as a critical point of focus in the UP polls. The BJP brought up the issue of ‘mass exodus’ from the region, against the Samajwadi Party.
Here, the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP has been chastised for re-nominating Nahid Hasan despite his involvement in multiple criminal cases involving fraud and extortion.
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