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Lucknow:
An common of over 53 per cent voters exercised their franchise on Tuesday within the Uttar Pradesh meeting byelections for seven seats with 88 candidates within the fray.
The polling, which started at a sluggish tempo at 7 am amid tight safety and adherence to anti-COVID precautions, picked up momentum because the day progressed and an total 53.62 per cent of registered voters solid their votes.
The polling concluded at 6 pm amid an allegation of bogus voting at three polling cubicles of Naugaon Sadat meeting constituency in Amroha district and over a six-hour-long ballot boycott at a polling sales space for Tundla seat in Firozabad district.
A complete of 50.59 per cent votes had been solid in Bangarmau, 52.10 per cent in Bulandshahr, 51.05 per cent in Deoria, 49.42 per cent in Ghatampur, 56.65 per cent in Malhani, 61.50 per cent in Naugaon Sadat and 54 per cent in Tundla, mentioned Joint Chief Electoral Officer Ramesh Chand Rai after the conclusion of polling.
Counting of votes might be undertaken on November 10.
Six of those seven seats had been held by the Bharatiya Janata Party, whereas the Malhani seat in Jaunpur district was held by the Samajwadi Party.
The voting started within the morning with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath urging voters to take part within the “mega festival of democracy” in giant numbers.
“Everyone should exercise caution and discharge the duty of casting vote,” Adityanath tweeted earlier within the day.
“Democracy will win, coronavirus will lose,” he mentioned.
The SP additionally appealed to voters to vote in giant numbers. “Those in power and responsible for farmers’ worries, women’s insecurity, poor health facilities, labourers’ joblessness and collapsed law and order should be given a reply in today’s assembly bypolls,” it tweeted.
Earlier within the day amid the continued polling, Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla mentioned, “All preparations to ensure a free, fair and peaceful polling, keeping in mind the coronavirus pandemic, have been made.”
“Voters will have to follow the anti-COVID protocol and maintain safe distance among themselves while casting votes,” he added.
The voting started with the deployment of “adequate” quantity safety personnel at polling cubicles, together with 371 “critical” ones.
Amid the continued polling, BJP candidate Sangeeta Chauhan for Naugaon Sadat seat in Amroha district alleged “fake voting” at three polling cubicles – Booth No 240, 24 and 242 — in her constituency and demanded that these sporting burqa ought to present their faces to allow ballot officers verify their identities.
“Fake voting is going on, but the administration is unable to understand this,” she instructed reporters.
“We are repeatedly saying this, but no one is listening to us,” she added.
The chief electoral officer instructed PTI that he would look into these allegations.
People at sales space quantity 30 at Rudhau Mustkil of Tundla constituency in Firozabad district boycotted the by-election for over six hours, alleging no improvement of their space and insisting that they won’t vote until they get an assurance for the event.
Chanting “vikas nahi, to vote nahi” (no improvement, no vote), voters on the Rudhau Mustkil sales space, voters boycotted the polling.
In a video clip that surfaced on social media, space’s Sub-divisional Magistrate Ekta Singh was purportedly seen speaking to the folks and urging them to vote.
The Yogi Adityanath authorities has been going through the opposition flak over the legislation and order state of affairs within the state, significantly after the Hathras and the Balrampur rape-and-murder circumstances.
The Naugaon Sadat seat fell vacant after the dying of state Cabinet minister and former cricketer Chetan Chauhan.
The Ghatampur bypoll in Kanpur Nagar district was necessitated because of the dying of state minister Kamal Rani Varun. Both ministers had died of COVID-19.
The Tundla seat fell vacant after its MLA SP Singh Baghel was elected to the Lok Sabha, whereas the Bangarmau seat in Unnao fell vacant after the conviction of BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in a rape case.
The BJP had dumped Sengar quickly after he was discovered concerned within the rape case.
The bypolls to the Bulandshahr, Deoria and Malhani seats had been necessitated as a result of deaths of sitting MLAs Virendra Singh Sirohi, Janmejay Singh and Parasnath Yadav (SP) respectively.
Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad’s Azad Samaj Party is testing its electoral reputation in Bulandshahr by fielding Mohammad Yameen, trying ahead to consolidating its maintain amongst Dalits within the run-up to the 2022 meeting polls.
While Bulandshahr has the best variety of 18 candidates, Ghatampur has the bottom variety of six contestants. Sixteen contenders are within the fray in Malhani, 14 every in Naugaon Sadat and Deoria, 10 every in Bangarmau and Tundla.
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