<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission has allotted a total of 1798 minutes to recognized political parties to carry out their election campaign on Doordarshan and All India Radio.<br />''<br />''Additional Chief Electoral Officer, Dr Brahm Dev Ram Tiwari said that the time has been allotted separately for streaming on the public broadcaster. He said a draw to decide the timings was taken out in which TMC was allotted 90 minutes, BSP 307, BJP 478, CPI 92, CPI-M 90, Congress 151, NCP 90, NPP 90, RLD 107 and SP 303 minutes on both Doordarshan and All India Radio separately.<br />''<br />''He further said the streaming on the Doordarshan Kendra DD UP will be for 16 days from 5th February to 5th March between 1 pm and 3 pm covering all seven phases of the polling. Similarly, All India Radio will broadcast for 14 days in two shifts from 10 am to 11 am and 5:30 pm to 7:10 pm.<br />''<br />''The Election Commission had earlier announced doubling the time for campaigning on DD and AIR due to ban on physical rallies and road shows in the wake of Covid19 cases in the state.</span><br />