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UP Election 2022: The second phase of the electoral ordeal tomorrow, 586 candidates in the fray for 55 seats

UP Election 2022 : In the second phase of polling, 2.02 crore voters will exercise their franchise, of which 1.08 crore are male, 0.94 crore female and 1269 are transgender voters. In the second phase of elections, 586 candidates are in the fray in 55 assembly constituencies, out of which 69 are women candidates.

UP Election 2022: LUCKNOW, In the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, voting will be held on Monday for 55 seats in nine districts of western Uttar Pradesh and Rohilkhand and all preparations have been completed for this. State Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said on Sunday that 2.02 crore voters would exercise their franchise in the second phase of polling, including 1.08 crore male, 0.94 crore female and 1269 transgender voters. In the second phase of elections, 586 candidates are in the fray in 55 assembly constituencies, out of which 69 are women candidates. He said that the polling will be held from 7 am to 6 pm on Monday. Election to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly is proposed in seven phases. After the completion of the first phase on February 10, now in the second phase, voting will be held on Monday, February 14 for 55 assembly seats in nine districts of the state - Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Amroha, Badaun, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur. . According to Shukla, extensive arrangements and security arrangements have been made by the Election Commission of India for fair, safe and peaceful elections and in view of Kovid-19, thermal scanners, hand sanitizers, gloves, face masks, face shields, PPE at polling places on polling day. Adequate quantity of kits, soap, water etc. have been arranged. A total of 23,404 polling stations and 12,544 polling stations have been set up in the second phase of elections. In view of Kovid-19, instructions have been given by the Election Commission of India to keep the maximum number of voters up to 1,250 at the polling places. Instructions have been given to the district election officers to provide ramps, toilets and drinking water facilities at all polling places. He said that 51 General Observers, 09 Police Observers and 17 Expenditure Observers have also been deployed by the Commission to keep a watchful eye on the polling. Apart from this, 1,793 Sector Magistrates, 220 Zonal Magistrates, 109 Static Magistrates and 2,806 Micro Observers have also been deployed. A Senior General Observer, 01 Senior Police Observer and 02 Senior Expenditure Observer have also been deployed by the Election Commission of India at the state level, who will supervise the entire election process by staying in the area. In the second phase, a total of 252 Adarsh ​​polling stations and 127 all women personnel polling places have been made. Of the 55 seats to be held in the second phase, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 38 seats in 2017 while the Samajwadi Party (SP) got 15 and the Congress two. The SP and the Congress had fought the last assembly elections in alliance. Of the 15 seats won by the SP, Muslim candidates won 10 seats. This time the SP is in the fray with an alliance of several smaller parties including the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and this phase is being considered as an area of ​​influence of the SP alliance. According to Additional Chief Electoral Officer Brahmdev Ram Tiwari, special arrangements have been made for the convenience of voters and security from covid-19 at each polling station and proper and necessary arrangements should be made there for the voters not to face any kind of trouble. Necessary instructions have been given to the administration for this. According to the Election Commission, a total of 586 candidates are in the fray in the second phase. Among them, State Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna (Shahjahanpur Sadar), Minister of State for Jal Shakti Baldev Singh Aulakh (Bilaspur), Minister of State for Urban Development Mahesh Chandra Gupta (Badaun), Minister of State for Secondary Education Gulab Devi (Chandausi), Minister of State for AYUSH and now SP's candidate Dharam Singh Saini (Nakur), senior SP leader Azam Khan (Rampur Sadar) and his son Abdullah Azam (Swar) are prominent. Campaigning for the second phase ended on Saturday evening and all political parties have appealed to voters to vote in favor of their candidates. All the political parties put their full emphasis in the campaign for the second phase of elections. On behalf of the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi was primarily an attacker on the main opposition party Samajwadi Party and called the BJP government necessary to keep Uttar Pradesh riot-free. Modi also raised the issue of triple talaq in Saharanpur and claimed that his government has freed Muslim sisters from the clutches of triple talaq. Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath also went to various places including Bareilly, Shahjahanpur and Badaun and held public meetings and attacked the opposition parties fiercely. On the other hand, SP President Akhilesh Yadav took charge of his party's campaign. He sought votes in Rampur in favor of his party's senior leader Azam Khan, who has been in jail for nearly two years in more than 100 cases, and said that Azam, who built the university, was put in jail and the farmers in Tikoniya of Lakhimpur Kheri were taken in his jeep. The son of the Union Minister of State for Home, who was trampled under, was granted bail. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) President Mayawati targeted SP, BJP and Congress during her election campaign. He alleged that the SP government ended the Jat-Muslim brotherhood in western Uttar Pradesh. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi campaigned door-to-door in several assembly constituencies of different districts before the second phase of polling. Read the full article