New Delhi: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, has emerged as the most active star campaigner of Congress in the state assembly as she addressed 167 rallies since January 8.

Vadra also held 42 road shows and did virtual rallies while canvassing for Congress candidates across the UP.

She also virtually addressed workers in 340 out of 403 constituencies in India’s most populous UP state.

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New Delhi: More than 21% of voters exercised franchise in the first 4 hours of polling for 7th and last phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday.

Voting began at 7am and will end at 4pm in Chakia, Chandauli; Robertsganj and Duddhi, Sonbhadra seats while in the rest of the constituencies, voting will continue till 6 pm.

Meanwhile, voting is underway at Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra constituencies.

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New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh elections have entered the last leg as campaigning for the seventh and final phase of assembly, on March 7 in UP’s Varanasi and its eight adjoining districts.

Former Congress President Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi reached Varanasi for campaigning today.

The two leaders offered prayers at the Kashi Vishwanath temple here and then reached Pindara and launched a fierce attack on BJP government.

Narendra Modi has been the Prime Minister since 2014 and he used to talk about employment, doubling the income of farmers and giving 15-15 lakh to each one’s account. He used to talk about reducing inflation, but now the PM does not even discuss it, Gandhi said adding that thousands of our youth are stranded in Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion and they are pleading and seeking help of Indian government but PM Modi is making fun of them by saying that these people had failed here, so they went there. Are they not citizens of India? Isn’t it your responsibility to protect them?”

Meanwhile, PM Modi also begins his roadshow from Maldahiya Chowk in Varanasi. Modi will be campaigning in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on March 4 and 5.

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PRAYAGRAJ: An FIR was registered against the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik chief and Kunda MLA Raghuraj Pratap alias Raja Bhaiya, along with 15 unidentified persons in a case of assault during the polling.

The case has been registered on the complaint of a Samajwadi Party (SP) booth agent Kunda in Assembly constituency of Pratapgarh.

According to the information, the incident occurred at booth number 209 of Kunda assembly constituency where Samajwadi Party booth agent Rakesh Pasi was present. Rakesh, in his complaint to the police, has said that Tinku Singh, a booth agent of The Jansatta Dal, told someone over the phone that remove Rakesh Saroj from the booth or else there will be no bogus voting and later 15 others including Raja Bhaiya, Subhash Singh and Gopal Kesarwani came and assaulted him.

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Lucknow: Polling is being held today in 59 seats of Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Fatehpur, Banda and Unnao

Lakhimpur Kheri is the segment where BJP union minister’s son mowed down four farmers and a journalist when they were holding protest against BJP.

The polling started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. The fate of 624 candidates will be sealed today.

In the previous elections, Of the 59 seats, BJP had won 51, 4 by SP ans 3 by BSP while Apna Dal (Sonelal) won one seat.

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New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav hit back at PM Narendra Modi’s ‘terrorists choosing cycles” comment at an election rally in Uttar Pradesh and said that ‘Cycle is the symbol of poor India’.

#MyCycleTwitter was one of the top trends in Twitter, as many people including opposition party leaders posted pictures with cycle.

Prime Minister Modi had said at a rally on Sunday, “All the blasts that took place were carried out on a bicycle and I wonder why they (terrorists) preferred bicycles, in 2006 there was a bomb blast in Kashi, there was a blast in Sankat Mochan temple, there was an attack on Cantt railway station and then there was a Samajwadi Party government in UP.”

Referring to the court’s verdict in the Ahmedabad blasts, Prime Minister Modi said, “Just two days ago, the perpetrators of the Ahmedabad bomb blast have been sentenced and many terrorists have been sentenced to death. Today, I am referring to this in particular because some political parties have been kind to such terrorists and these political parties have been lenient in the interest of vote banks for terrorism.”

Prime Minister Modi said that when the SP came to power in 2012, it had decided to withdraw the bomb blasts case against terrorists, if you give a chance to such people, they will do their own crimes.

In UP, 172 seats have gone to polls in three phases. Polling for the fourth phase will now be held on February 23.

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New Delhi: Launching fierce attack on Mamata Banerjee TMC party, Prime Minister Narendra Modi racked up TMC’s interview given in Goa and said that it was contesting elections there to divide Hindu votes.

PM appealed the election commission of India to take notice of it, while addressing the rally in Kanpur Dehat.

Mamata Banerjee’s party contested Goa polls first time and had allied with one party (MGP) to divide the Hindu votes in Goa, Modi said adding that enacting a law against “triple talaq”, by BJP government has saved thousands of Muslim women in UP.

This remark has once again heated up the politics amid the ongoing elections in UP, as hijab row currently going on in Karnataka.

He said that Muslim feels safe under leadership of BJP but opposition trying to create mayhem for their vested interests.

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New Delhi: In Uttar Pradesh, polling for second phase of assembly election has begun in 55 seats in the nine districts.

A total of 586 candidates are in the fray in this phase as the fate of all these will be captured in the EVMs today.

The main contest is between the BJP, SP BSP and Congress.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has appealed all to vote to maintain the development journey of a riot-free state.

He tweeted, “Heartiest congratulations to all the esteemed voters of the second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections-2022! There is also a ‘rashtradharma’ along with voting rights and duties. You must vote to continue the development journey of ‘Riot-free and fear-free New Uttar Pradesh’.

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