Over 55 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the seventh and the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday. Eight Assembly seats in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi was in the focus today, with multiple seats witnessing close contests.
Apart from the Varanasi district, voting took place in eight other districts in India's most populous state.
A total of 613 candidates are in the electoral fray for the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 constituencies slated for Monday in nine districts of Mau, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Varanasi, Chandauli, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, and Bhadohi (Sant Ravidas Nagar).
The counting of votes will take place on March 10.
Here are the Highlights on UP Election 2022 Phase 7 Voting:
Over 55 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 54 seats on Monday.
The districts that voted in this phase are Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur, Bhadohi and Sonbhadra.
Uttar Pradesh has recorded a voter turnout of 54.18% till 5 pm, according to the election commission. Voting will end at 6 pm.
Congress leader Ajay Rai on Monday charged that the low voter turnout in the last leg of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections was due to the lack of proper arrangements by the local administration.
46.40 per cent voting turnout in UP till 3 PM
#ElectionsWithNDTV | 35.5% turnout recorded till 1 PM in the last phase of #UttarPradeshElections
- NDTV (@ndtv) March 7, 2022
NDTV's Saurabh Shukla reports
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BJP & BSP will not win a single seat in Ghazipur, Mau, Azamgarh, Ambedkar Nagar& Ballia. We're winning on 5 of 8 seats in Varanasi, 3 of 4 seats in Chandauli, 7 of 9 seats in Jaunpur. We'll win 45-47 seats in Purvanchal region: OP Rajbhar, President,Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party pic.twitter.com/2uNymXCB4v
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 7, 2022
#ElectionsWithNDTV | "This is not the first time we are contesting against each other. I have defeated OP Rajbhar in 2012 as well": Shadab Fatima, BSP candidate from Zahoorabad constituency #UttarPradeshElections pic.twitter.com/WANKGOdYFs
- NDTV (@ndtv) March 7, 2022
Don't know which international recognition they boast about. They (BJP-led Centre) failed to evacuate Indians, named evacuation op 'Operation Ganga' because polls in Varanasi too. Had they rescued our people from #Ukraine directly I would've appreciated it:Akhilesh Yadav, SP#UP pic.twitter.com/RoF0oWyNCM
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 7, 2022
Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) troops in security duties and assisting differently abled and elderly voters at 7th and final phase of Uttar Pradesh elections today in different polling booths in Varanasi, Jaunpur, Sonbhadra, Gazipur, Chandauli and Azamgarh.#UPElections2022 pic.twitter.com/Bg38Agyupc
- ITBP (@ITBP_official) March 7, 2022
#WATCH | Azamgarh: An elderly person reaches polling booth by pulling a cart, with his wife who has a fracture & a handicapped woman on it. "I've back problem & my wife also not well, hence, used this cart. We've no expectations. Can Rs 500, 1000 (given by state)cure us?" he said pic.twitter.com/tn0RcvwMrC
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 7, 2022
#ElectionsWithNDTV | "This election is being fought over castes. We are fighting for social justice": OP Rajbhar (@oprajbhar), candidate Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (Samajwadi Party ally)#UttarPradeshElections pic.twitter.com/TklLcMN7KZ
- NDTV (@ndtv) March 7, 2022
Voting underway at National Inter College in South Varanasi area in the seventh phase of #UttarPradeshElections2022 pic.twitter.com/i8j1mgQKI0
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 7, 2022
#UttarPradeshElections2022 | UP minister Ravindra Jaiswal contesting from Varanasi North Assembly constituency says we will win all seats in Varanasi.
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 7, 2022
BJP will get over 350 seats in this Assembly elections, he adds. pic.twitter.com/XR3JU4DOVh
Varanasi, UP | Mock polling begins for the final phase of #UttarPradeshElections.
- ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) March 7, 2022
Visuals from polling booth number 97 of Nivedita Shiksha Sadan Balika Inter College pic.twitter.com/ThR5zf3wsH
Eight Assembly seats in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi will be in the focus today in the seventh and the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, with multiple seats witnessing close contests. Apart from the Varanasi district, voting is taking place in eight other districts in India's most populous state.
