Lucknow: Campaigning for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections in UP ended on Thursday in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies, including the high-profile Sultanpur and Azamgarh seats, which are scheduled to go to polls on May 25.
Campaigning also ended for Gasri assembly seat of Balrampur, where by-election is to be held on May 25.
According to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa, a total of 162 candidates, including 146 men and 16 women, are in the fray, while seven candidates are contesting from the Gasari assembly seat.
The campaign ended at six in the evening. Voting on these seats will take place on May 25 between 7 am and 6 pm.
He said that after the campaign is over, all outstation district workers of the political party will not be allowed to go to the respective districts where voting is to be held.
The seats where voting is taking place include Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Phulpur Allahabad, Ambedkarnagar, Shravasti, Dumariaganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar Lalganj (SC), Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Machhilshahr (SC) and Bhadohi.In Sultanpur, BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi is facing SP's Bhim Nishad and BSP's Udayraj Verma.
From Allahabad, Neeraj Tripathi, son of former governor Kesari Nath Tripathi, will face Congress's Ujjwal Raman Singh.
On the Azamgarh seat, which was won by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in 2019, sitting BJ MP Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua will face SP's Dharmendra Yadav, who lost to Nirahua in the 2022 Lok Sabha bypoll.
In Jaunpur, another keenly watched seat, former Maharashtra minister Kripashankar Singh will contest against SP candidate Babu Singh Khushwaha and sitting BSP MP Shyam Singh Yadav.
Lalitesh Pati Tripathi of Trinamool Congress is in the fray in Bhadohi.
For this phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign from Allahabad in which he said that the opposition Congress and SP compete with each other for appeasement of their vote bank and called both the parties "anti-development".
He said in Allahabad, “SP and Congress are more worried about their vote bank than the Kumbh (fair).,
BSP chief Mayawati also campaigned for her party's candidates and termed Congress and BJP as anti-Dalit and anti-backward, saying their intentions and thinking were against reservation.
"When the first Congress government was formed at the Centre, BR Ambedkar, who was the Law Minister, told 'Jawahar Lal Nehru & Company' that SCs and STs were not getting the full benefits of reservation given in the Constitution in government jobs. “He alleged.
During his campaign, Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the India Bloc was getting huge support in UP and predicted that the BJP would lose all 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state, including Varanasi.
Addressing a rally in support of SP's Lalganj candidate Daroga Prasad Saroj Yadav, he said, "Whatever strategy they (BJP) have made this time, the people of Uttar Pradesh have made up their mind to wipe them out."
He repeated his allegation that BJP wants to change the Constitution.Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attacked the India Bloc in his rallies, claiming that it wants to loot the country by dividing people on the basis of caste and religion.
Campaigning also ended for Gasri assembly seat of Balrampur, where by-election is to be held on May 25.
According to Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa, a total of 162 candidates, including 146 men and 16 women, are in the fray, while seven candidates are contesting from the Gasari assembly seat.
The campaign ended at six in the evening. Voting on these seats will take place on May 25 between 7 am and 6 pm.
He said that after the campaign is over, all outstation district workers of the political party will not be allowed to go to the respective districts where voting is to be held.
The seats where voting is taking place include Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Phulpur Allahabad, Ambedkarnagar, Shravasti, Dumariaganj, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar Lalganj (SC), Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Machhilshahr (SC) and Bhadohi.In Sultanpur, BJP candidate Maneka Gandhi is facing SP's Bhim Nishad and BSP's Udayraj Verma.
From Allahabad, Neeraj Tripathi, son of former governor Kesari Nath Tripathi, will face Congress's Ujjwal Raman Singh.
On the Azamgarh seat, which was won by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in 2019, sitting BJ MP Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua will face SP's Dharmendra Yadav, who lost to Nirahua in the 2022 Lok Sabha bypoll.
In Jaunpur, another keenly watched seat, former Maharashtra minister Kripashankar Singh will contest against SP candidate Babu Singh Khushwaha and sitting BSP MP Shyam Singh Yadav.
Lalitesh Pati Tripathi of Trinamool Congress is in the fray in Bhadohi.
For this phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a campaign from Allahabad in which he said that the opposition Congress and SP compete with each other for appeasement of their vote bank and called both the parties "anti-development".
He said in Allahabad, “SP and Congress are more worried about their vote bank than the Kumbh (fair).,
BSP chief Mayawati also campaigned for her party's candidates and termed Congress and BJP as anti-Dalit and anti-backward, saying their intentions and thinking were against reservation.
"When the first Congress government was formed at the Centre, BR Ambedkar, who was the Law Minister, told 'Jawahar Lal Nehru & Company' that SCs and STs were not getting the full benefits of reservation given in the Constitution in government jobs. “He alleged.
During his campaign, Akhilesh Yadav claimed that the India Bloc was getting huge support in UP and predicted that the BJP would lose all 80 Lok Sabha seats in the state, including Varanasi.
Addressing a rally in support of SP's Lalganj candidate Daroga Prasad Saroj Yadav, he said, "Whatever strategy they (BJP) have made this time, the people of Uttar Pradesh have made up their mind to wipe them out."
He repeated his allegation that BJP wants to change the Constitution.Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attacked the India Bloc in his rallies, claiming that it wants to loot the country by dividing people on the basis of caste and religion.
