Polling has begun for the seventh and final phase of choices in Uttar Pradesh where 13 remaining seats in the eastern part of the state are going to pates.
In Varanasi, a traditional fort of the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seeking his third successive term.
He secured a resounding palm in the 2019 Lok Sabha choices, with 63 per cent of the total votes. This time, he faces Uttar Pradesh Congress President Ajay Rai and Bahujan Samaj Party’s( BSP) Athar Jamal Lari.
Gorakhpur, another prestigious seat of Purvanchal, sees a clash between two Bhojpuri actors.
BJP seeker Ravindra Kishan Shukla, popularly known as Ravi Kishan Shukla, is fighting to retain the seat for a alternate term. He’s being challenged by INDIA bloc seeker Kajal Nishad, also a Bhojpuri actor.
In Mirzapur, Union Minister Anupriya Patel from Apna Dal( temporal) surfaced victorious in the 2014 and 2019 pates but faces competition from Samajwadi Party’s( SP) Rajendra Bind and BSP’s Manish Tripathi this time.
BSP seeker Balkrishna Chauhan is posing a challenge to NDA seeker Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party( SBSP) leader Arvind Rajbhar, with SP’s Rajeev Kumar Rai making the contest triangular.
In Ghazipur, the BJP has nominated Parasnath Rai, known to be close to Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha. Afzal Ansari, the family of the late gangbanger- turned- politician Mukhtar Ansari, is querying on a SP ticket.
In 2019, Afzal Ansari defeated elderly BJP leader Manoj Sinha by further than1.19 lakh votes. Umesh Kumar Singh represents the BSP in this constituency.
In Maharajganj, BJP’s Pankaj Choudhary competes against Virendra Chaudhary of the Congress, while the Ballia constituency substantiations Neeraj Sekhar of the BJP facing off against Sanatan Pandey of theSP.
Meanwhile, given the prevailing heat surge conditions in Uttar Pradesh, the Chief Electoral Officer( CEO) Navdeep Rinwa has directed all the Divisional Officers and District Election Officers concerned to make necessary arrangements at all polling cells to cover polling labor force and choosers from scorching heat in all 13 Lok Sabha constituencies of the eastern part of the state that go to pates in the seventh and final phase on Saturday.
Paramedics and ASHA workers are being handed with acceptable ORS and medical accoutrements at every polling centre and polling station to cover the choosers from the heat, he said.
” Paramedic labor force should also be stationed with the sector justice. exigency ambulance service available in the separate sections should be kept active so that it can be fluently transferred to polling centres and polling cells during an exigency,” he added.
Arrangements have been made to give water to choosers standing in line, CEO Rinwa said.
The Chief Electoral Officer advised choosers to reach polling stations before daylight on the polling day.
Shops and general stores operating around the polling stations where bottled drinking water is available shouldn’t be closed, he said, adding that continued power force and acceptable lighting should be arranged at polling stations.
