The Uttar Pradesh elections are a fight between the dynasts and diehard nationalists, which the opposition parties do not understand, Prime Minister said today, as he campaigned for the BJP today. Addressing his second election rally of the day in Deoria, Modi attacked previous governments in Uttar Pradesh, saying they shut sugar mills and didn't clear dues of sugarcane farmers.
The Phase 5 of Uttar Pradesh assembly election, in which voting was held in 61 constituencies including Ayodhya today, recorded 54 per cent average turnout till 5 pm, as per the revised figure.
This phase is crucial for the BJP as the party and its allies won 50 of the 61 seats here in the 2017 elections. A resurgent Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav is the BJP's biggest challenger here.
The districts going to the polls today include Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabaki, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda.
Here are the Highlights on Uttar Pradesh Election 2022 5th Phase Voting:
Voting for the fifth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections ends, counting on March 10
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 27, 2022
53.93% voter turnout recorded till 5pm pic.twitter.com/EdibDUplIq
In the backdrop of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said India favours world peace.
"Prime Minister Narendra Modi's role is being appreciated on the matter. India is peace-lover. India has never attacked any country and never grabbed land of other country.
"We want world peace and everyone should accept it," Rajnath Singh said addressing an election rally here in Bairia.
He said after surgical and air strike on Pakistan India's image changed in the world.
फूलपुर पवई, उत्तर प्रदेश में चुनावी जनसभा https://t.co/zxjbO3BUpW
- Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) February 27, 2022
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- We have made 18 new medical colleges in the state, and (construction) work underway in 20. We also set up AIIMS in Gorakhpur. We are also trying that the poor children get to study medical, engineering in their own language.
- Some time ago, I laid foundation stones of 9 medical colleges in UP including Deoria's Maharshi Devraha Baba Autonomous State Medical College. This medical college could have been constructed before, but these 'Pariwardis' never prioritized you.
- This election is between 'Rashtravadis and Parivarwadis'...Remember how you had to take your vehicles to Gorakhpur in medical emergencies because the then govt didn't pay any heed to people's medical needs here. Many innocent kids died due to brain fever.
They're perturbed. They can't seem to remember the day when Swami Prasad Maurya joined us. I was waiting since 2011. Had he joined us after leaving BSP,we need not have seen bad days for 5 yrs. Had he joined us in 2017, UP would've been forward today: SP chief in Fazilnagar pic.twitter.com/K99SRFfcbK
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 27, 2022
#ElectionsWithNDTV | Names missing, saints in #Ayodhya unable to vote
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 27, 2022
NDTV's Saurabh Shukla reports#UttarPradeshElections2022 pic.twitter.com/o8EbntiUc8
A clash broke out between TMC and BJP workers during #WestBengal civic polls in North 24 Parganas.
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 27, 2022
"2 EVMs vandalized at ward 9, similar situations across the state. Police arresting BJP workers, not letting them vote. All booths have been captured": Arjun Singh, BJP
(ANI) pic.twitter.com/ldhCLzT2Xh
#ElectionsWithNDTV | "Stray cattle a big issue," says a voter in #Amethi
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 27, 2022
NDTV's Alok Pandey reports#UttarPradeshElections2022 pic.twitter.com/2f31v99R5S
8.02% voter turnout recorded from 7- 9 am in the fifth phase for 5th phase #UPElections2022. Voting being done peacefully at all places, barring reports of glitch in EVMs at some places. Necessary action being taken: Additional Chief Electoral Officer, BD Ram Tiwari, Lucknow pic.twitter.com/lRWXB8siQF
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) February 27, 2022
#ElectionsWithNDTV | Polling underway for fifth phase of #UttarPradeshElections2022, all eyes on temple town #Ayodhya
- NDTV (@ndtv) February 27, 2022
NDTV's Saurabh Shukla reports
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