Seventh, but Final Phase of Polling of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections spreading over 60 seats in ten districts started early morning at 7 am amidst tight security arrangements.
Covering Bijnore, Moradabad, Bheem Nagar, Rampur, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Badaun, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur Kheri district, more than 1.82 crore voters cast their votes to decide the fate of their franchise.
In the list of candidates, Samajwadi Party‘s Muslim face Mohammad Azam Khan is on top most who is contesting from Rampur.
Mayawati government Minister Omvati, BSP MP Jugal Kishore’s son Saurabh and Rastriya Parivartan Dal head D P Yadav, all are contesting in this concluding phase.
The most attentive constitutionals in this phase is DP Yadav, a strongman with a criminal past, whose entry into the Samajwadi Party was stalled by state president Akhilesh Yadav.
Beside this, three ex-BSP ministers, Yashpal Singh, Phool Babu and Avdhesh Verma, who were denied ticket by Mayawati, in a clean-up act just before polls, have all migrated to rival political parties and are contesting these elections.
In final phase, Varun’s uncle V M Singh, is the richest candidate with declared assets of more than 630 crores, contesting from the Pallia constituency in Lakhimpur Kheri district on a Trinamool Congress ticket.
The chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha ensured that with amidst tight security, deploying more than thousands of police men and several cameras being installed, polling in this final phase would be fare and peaceful as per last phases.
However this Seventh phase was firstly scheduled for February 4 but due to having some reasons, it was later postponed to March 3.
Expecting higher outcome from this polling phase, 962 candidates including some political veterans are testing their luck.
