Lucknow | Voting is underway for the sixth phase in Uttar Pradesh. Polling is being held in 57 seats of Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Siddharthnagar, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Deoria, Gorakhpur, Balrampur, Ambedkar Nagar and Ballia. Till 1 pm, 36.33 percent polling has been done in UP.
Additional Chief Electoral Officer Bramhadev Ram Tiwari said that a total of 36.33 percent voting has been done till 1 pm in the sixth phase of the general election of the UP assembly. In Ambedkar Nagar 40.60, Ballia 36.39, Balrampur 29.89, Basti 37.48, Deoria 34.95, Gorakhpur 36.63, Kushinagar 39.36, Maharajganj 35.32, Sant Kabir Nagar 34.42, Siddharth Nagar 36.51 percent voting has been done.
Angry villagers boycotted voting for two hours expressing anger over the closure of the road in Maharajganj by the railways. After persuading the police and administrative officials who reached the spot, people voted. The last village of Paniyara Vidhan Sabha is a tola of Kotiya Gram Sabha near the Kushinagar district. Khutmaidan has a population of about 500. The main road of the villagers, the railway stall, was closed in 2017. The villagers had also agitated at that time. Cases were also registered against many people, but neither the railway administration listened to them nor any public representative.
Mata Prasad Pandey, the assembly candidate from the Etawa assembly constituency of Siddharthnagar, cast his vote by reaching the booth on Thursday. He cast his vote by reaching the village Pirila polling station in his village. He said that everyone should participate and exercise their franchise in this festival of democracy.
Voters of Karchi, Parua, Narayanpur and Milkanwa villages of Phephna area of Ballia boycotted the assembly elections. Staff and security personnel were ready to vote at polling station number 151 located in Parua and polling booth number 150 and 151 located in Karchi, but voters did not turn up to cast their vote. The CDO, CO and other high officials explained a lot to the villagers and also warned them to take action, but the villagers completely refused to vote due to the non-fulfillment of their demands.
Bhim Army Chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who reached Islamia Girls Inter College in Gorakhpur, has appealed to the voters to vote without fear. He said that this time people are voting against arrogance. The problem of waterlogging, broken roads has been raised in Gorakhpur.
The Samajwadi Party has complained to the Election Commission that at booth number 331, 332 of Barhaj Vidhan Sabha of Deoria district, people of BJP are forcibly casting votes in favor of BJP.
During the voting in Ballia, considered to be a rebel land, on Thursday, Minister Upendra Tiwari had an argument with a inspector. The minister became very heated when the inspector refused to walk in the polling station. When the police stopped Minister Upendra Tiwari at Gadwar booth of Phephna area, the minister started having a heated argument with the inspector.
On the other hand, BJP-Nishad Party candidate Ketki Singh from Bansdih in Ballia is accused of scuffle with voters along with his father-in-law. Ketki Singh is accused that after reaching the Asega booth of Bansdih assembly of Ballia, he along with his father-in-law, shoved the voters and threatened that we will see after five o’clock.
