February 10, 2012 7:38 PM

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Arrangements complete for 2nd phase polling in UP

All arrangements are in place for second phase of polling in Utter Pradesh tomorrow. Voting will take place in 59 constituencies in nine eastern UP districts of Azamgarh, Gorakhpur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Maharajganj, Deoria, Mau, Sant Kabir Nagar and Kushinagar. 1098 candidates are in the fray and about one corer 93 lakh voters could cast their votes.Most of the polling parties have reached their destinations. More than twenty thousand polling stations have been created and about twenty one thousand EVMs will be used in this phase.Fifty five thousand personnel’s of Paramilitary forces have been deployed in these nine districts. Beside this Police and PAC force in sufficient numbers have been deployed in election areas.Poltical fortune of many senior leaders including Vidhansabha speaker Sukhdev Rajbhar, state president of BSP Swami Prasad Maurya,State BJP president SuryaPratap Shahi,Deputy leader of Samajwadi Party Ambika Chaudhari and Peace party president Dr Mohammad Ayub controversial eastern UP politician Mukhtar Ansari will be decided in this phase in this phase 24 former minsters are also contesting election . Political leaders are campaigning to seek the support of voters in the assemly segmments where votes will be cast in third and fourth phases.

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