In Uttar Pradesh, Election Commission has deployed 6 senior police officers as police observers for the all 10 districts going to polls in the first phase of Assembly elections. Our correspondent has filed this report.In Uttarakhand, nomination papers of about 25 candidates of different political parties including Bahujan Samajwadi Party and Samajwadi Party were rejected yesterday during scrutiny. The last date of withdrawal of candidature is 16th of this month. More from our correspondent:In Punjab, about 200 nominations were rejected at different places during the scrutiny of nominations yesterday. Nearly 19 hundred candidates had filed their nominations for 117 seats of Punjab Assembly for which polling will be held on 30th of this month.In Manipur, the Kuki militant outfits having Suspension of Operations (SoO) agreement with the government have been advised not to support any political party or candidate in the forthcoming state assembly elections.