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Assembly Elections: High-pitch electoral campaign for Last Phase of UP Polls and Second-Phase in Manipur intensifies

In Uttar Pradesh, electoral campaign for the Seventh and Last Phase of Assembly Elections has intensified further and preparations for Sixth Phase polling, scheduled to be held tomorrow, are being given final touches today. The poll campaign for the Second Phase of polling in Manipur as well as the Assembly By-Election for the Majuli seat in Assam, which will also be held along with the Seventh Phase in Uttar Pradesh, is going on in full swing.<br />''<br />''Star Campaigners and prominent leaders of various political parties are engaged in public rallies. The door-to-door canvassing and virtual appeals to the voters also continue.<br />''<br />''The Sixth Phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh will be conducted tomorrow in 57 Assembly Constituencies from 10 districts.  There are a total of 676 candidates in fray for 57 Assembly seats. Maximum 15 candidates each are vying for three seats including Tulsipur, Gorakhpur Rural, and Padrauna while a minimum of seven candidates are contesting for Salempur seat.<br />''<br />''The prominent BJP candidates participating in this phase include Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, his Cabinet colleagues Jai Prakash Nishad and Upendra Tiwari, former Ministers Fateh Bahadur Singh, Dharmraj Nishad, State Party Vice President Daya Shankar Singh, former State Party President Surya Pratap Shahi, Spokesman Shalabh Mani Tripathi along with Surendra Kumar Kushwaha, Rajesh Tripathi, Shailesh Kumar Singh, Manish Kumar, Kailash Nath, Ram Pratap Verma, Kapil Deo Verma, Surendra Chaurasia, Subhash Rai, Ajay Singh, Bajrang Bahadur Singh, and Triveniram. The BJP alliance partner NISHAD Party has fielded Dr. Asim Kumar Rai, Avdhesh Dwivedi, Rishi, and Ketaki Singh.<br />''<br />''Samajwadi Party has nominated former Ministers Swami Prasad Maurya, Vinay Shankar Tiwari, Dr. Shiv Pratap Yadav, Ram Murti Verma, Brahmashankar Tripathi, Sangram Singh, Narad Rai, Ram Achal Rajbhar, and Shankhlal Majhi along with Ajai Pratap Singh, Vikram Yadav, Tribhuvan Dutt, Abdul Mashood Khan, Hasib Khan, Uday Narayan, Kunwar Kaushal Singh, Ram Govind Chaudhari, Rambhual Nishad, Kajal Nishad, Fasiha Manzar Ghazala Lari and Shubhavati Upendra Dutt Shukla for this phase.<br />''<br />''The BSP has fielded former Minister Raj Kishor Singh along with Khwaja Shamsuddin, Suresh Tiwari, Ram Saran, Aman Mani Tripathi, Parvez Alam, Pawan Kumar Upadhyay, Iliyas Ansari, Rajendra Sehi, Chandra Prakash Verma, Dr. Rajesh Singh, Shivdas Prasad Verma, Alauddin, Ram Pratap, Prateek Pandey, Shabana Khatoon, Keshra Devi Gautam, Pushpa Sahi and Ishoo Chaurasia. Congress candidates Manoj Singh, Surendra Kumar Nishad, Dr. Ishtiyaq Ahmad Khan, Dipendra Singh Dipankar, Merajuddin, Jainendra, Omprakash, Virendra Chaudhari,Sada Mohan Upadhyay, Laboni Singh, Satyambada, Dr. Ragini Pathak, Priyanka, Nishat Fatima, Soniya Shukla, Ambar Jahan, Shahla Ahrari and Dr. Chetna Pandey are also in the fray.<br />''<br />''Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Vijay Kumar Srivastava, Rajendra Prasad Nishad, Hari Narayan Chauhan, Zia-ul Haque, Kaushal Kishore Mani, Ravishankar, Sanjay Kumar Rai, Harishchandra Yadav, Hidyatulla, Ram Baran Prajapati, and Mool Chand Jaiswal among others. Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad from Azad Samaj Party, Avlesh, Shrikant Singh and Sandeep Kumar Mall of JD(U), Atal Bihari Singh, Anand Prakash Chaurasia, Sanjay Kumar Dubey and Matiullah of CPI, Irfan Ahmad, Abdul Mannan, Shamim Khan, Shahabuddin of AIMIM along with Sangram Singh Tomar and Sagar Singh of LJP (Ramvilas) are also trying their luck.<br />''<br />''In the Second Phase of Assembly Elections in Manipur, 22 seats spread over ten districts will go to polls on Saturday. There are 92 candidates including two women are contesting for 22 seats in the Second Phase.<br />''<br />''The Seventh Phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh will be conducted on 7th of March in 54 Assembly Constituencies from nine districts.<br />''<br />''There are total of 613 candidates in fray for 54 Assembly seats indicating largely multi-cornered contests.<br />''<br />''<span style="color: #222222;">In addition, the Assembly By-Election for the Majuli seat in Assam will also be held simultaneously where there is a triangular contest on cards. The ruling BJP has fielded Bhuban Gam while the Opposition parties have put their weight behind Asom Jatiya Parishad's Chittaranjan Basumatary while Bhaity Richong of the Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) is the third candidate. The By-Poll was necessitated following the resignation of Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal from this seat after being elected to the Rajya Sabha.</span><br />

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