Votes will be counted on May 13
According to the State Election Commission (SEC), over 1.92 crore voters are eligible to cast their vote to elect their representatives in the second phase.
Voting for the last phase of urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh will be held on Thursday in 38 districts including Meerut, Ghaziabad, Shahjahanpur, Bareilly, Aligarh, Kanpur and Ayodhya.
The elections are considered important as political parties are trying to show their strength ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
Campaigning for the last phase ended on Tuesday evening with BJP and Samajwadi Party leaders going round the constituencies.
Shahjahanpur will vote to elect its first mayor. Meerut and Aligarh had BSP mayors in 2017, while the rest were ruled by the BJP.
According to the State Election Commission (SEC), over 1.92 crore voters are eligible to cast their votes to elect their representatives in the second phase.
Voting will be held on Thursday from 7 am to 6 pm.
The first phase of polling was held on May 4. The counting of votes will take place on May 13.
In the second round, 39,146 candidates are in the fray for 6,929 posts, including seven mayors and 581 councillors.
Apart from this, voting will be held for the election of 95 chairpersons and 2,520 members of Municipal Councils and 267 chairpersons and 3,459 members of various Nagar Panchayats.
The SEC said that 77 delegates, including nine corporators, have been elected unopposed in this round.
Addressing an election rally in Kanpur on Tuesday, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, “Those who were responsible for riots and curfew in Kanpur and played with people’s faith in the past are Samajwadi Party candidates today. The kind of remarks he has made against women and ‘Ramayana’ are not hidden from anyone. All basic facilities are there,” he said.
Attacking the SP on Monday, Adityanath also referred to the incidents of firing on ‘kar sevaks’ in Ayodhya in 1990, when the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led SP was in power. He said a ‘wrong message’ would be sent if those who fired at ‘kar sevaks’ in the city get votes.
Both Deputy Chief Ministers, Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, Union Minister Smriti Irani, UP BJP chief Bhupendra Singh Choudhary also campaigned for party candidates.
From the opposition camp, Mainpuri MPs Dimple Yadav and Shivpal Yadav lent a helping hand to SP President Akhilesh Yadav, who was campaigning for party candidates.
Dimple Yadav did a roadshow in Kanpur on Monday. He said that people have started to realize that it is only his party which can really work for the development of the state. He also said that people will no longer fall under the spell of BJP.
As per the final list of reserved seats, the mayor’s seat in Agra has been reserved for SCs (women), Jhansi for SCs, Shahjahanpur and Firozabad for OBCs (women), Saharanpur and Meerut for OBCs, and Lucknow, Kanpur and Ghaziabad . reserved for women.
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