Uttar Pradesh polls 6th phase: About 9 per cent polling till 9 am

About 9 per cent voting was witnessed in the first two hours for the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls on ThursdayThe prominent faces among the 676 candidates contesting on 57 seats spread across 10 districts in this phase include Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi RajThe voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pmAround 215 crore people are eligible to vote in this phaseSo far voting for 292 of the 403 Assembly seats has been completed The final phase of the elections on the remaining 54 seats will be held on March 7The districts where polling is being held on Thursday are Ambedkarnagar Balrampur Siddharth Nagar Basti Sant Kabir Nagar Maharajganj Gorakhpur Kushinagar Deoria and BalliaIn the 2017 Assembly polls the BJP had won 46 of the 57 seatsIn the first two hours till 9 am there was an average of 869 per cent polling according to the Election Commission of Indias Turnout appWhile Ambedkarnagar had 954 per cent voting Ballia had 759 per cent Balrampur 810 per cent Basti 983 per cent Deoria 844 per cent Gorakhpur 892 per cent Kushinagar 969 per cent Mahrajganj 89 per cent Sant Kabir Nagar 676 per cent and Siddharth Nagar 824 per centAmong those who cast their votes in the morning included Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chowdhury Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar minister Upendra Tiwari and former minister Narad RaiTalking to reporters after casting his votes the chief minister said that there will be 80 per cent votes for BJP and in the rest 20 per cent will get divided among the oppositionHe also appealed to people to vote in large numbersThe Samajwadi Party has pitted the wife of the late Upendra Dutt Shukla a former BJP leader against AdityanathAzad Samaj Party founder Chandrashekhar Azad is also contesting against the Uttar Pradesh chief minister from Gorakhpur UrbanSwami Prasad Maurya who was a minister in the Adityanath government and had quit the BJP to join the Samajwadi Party is contesting from FazilnagarThe Leader of the Opposition in the state Assembly and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Govind Chaudhary is contesting from BansdihMany incumbent ministers fate will also be decided in this phaseThey include Surya Pratap Shahi from Pathardeva Satish Chandra Dwivedi from Itwa Jai Pratap Singh from Bansi Shree Ram Chauhan from Khajani and Jai Prakash Nishad from RudrapurThe campaigning for this phase witnessed the political parties going for an allout attack against each otherPrime Minister Narendra Modi attacked the BJPs rivals by tagging them as dynasts who he claimed can never make India capable or empower Uttar PradeshCongress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi rebutted by saying that the BJP is only against her family which did not bow down before itSamajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy of ending reservation and selling government entities to the private sectorThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever