Lucknow: Bitter Poll campaign with sharp attacks and counter-attacks came to a close this evening for the 49 Uttar Pradesh assembly seats, the voting for which is to be held on March 4 with Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav's Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency being in focus.
Assembly segments of Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency of firebrand BJP leader Yogi Adityanath, and Mau, where jailed gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari is in fray, also figure in this sixth and penultimate phase of polling.
The campaigning saw BJP state president KP Maurya likening rivals SP, Congress and BSP to different types of venomous "snakes" and "social cancer" and urging people to eliminate them by voting for the BJP.
While mustering votes for BJP, PM Modi sought to prove wrong the prophets of doom after demonetisation saying the latest GDP data showed note-ban did not affect growth rate but rather improved it.
The prime minister also sounded highly optimistic of the poll outcome for BJP. "Never have elections gone one way like this... there had been no dearth in enthusiasm of voters in all five phases," he said.
He also ridiculed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his latest "coconut juice" remark. "There is a Congress leader, and I want to pray for his long life... he recently went to Manipur to address an
election rally. There he told farmers that he would extract juice from coconuts and send it to London. In fact, a coconut possesses water (and not juice) and it is grown in Kerala," he said.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also hit out at the Prime Minister during his rally today. "Modiji spoke about our 'karnama' but did not give any account of his work. He is shying away from debate on development. Actually, doing nothing is his biggest karnama," he said.
Assembly segments of Gorakhpur Lok Sabha constituency of firebrand BJP leader Yogi Adityanath, and Mau, where jailed gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari is in fray, also figure in this sixth and penultimate phase of polling.
The campaigning saw BJP state president KP Maurya likening rivals SP, Congress and BSP to different types of venomous "snakes" and "social cancer" and urging people to eliminate them by voting for the BJP.
While mustering votes for BJP, PM Modi sought to prove wrong the prophets of doom after demonetisation saying the latest GDP data showed note-ban did not affect growth rate but rather improved it.
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The prime minister also sounded highly optimistic of the poll outcome for BJP. "Never have elections gone one way like this... there had been no dearth in enthusiasm of voters in all five phases," he said.
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He also ridiculed Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his latest "coconut juice" remark. "There is a Congress leader, and I want to pray for his long life... he recently went to Manipur to address an
election rally. There he told farmers that he would extract juice from coconuts and send it to London. In fact, a coconut possesses water (and not juice) and it is grown in Kerala," he said.
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav also hit out at the Prime Minister during his rally today. "Modiji spoke about our 'karnama' but did not give any account of his work. He is shying away from debate on development. Actually, doing nothing is his biggest karnama," he said.
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