UP Assembly Elections 2022 Updates: 60.44% Turnout Till 5pm as Polling Concludes

Jailed gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s son Abbas Ansari on Monday filed his nomination papers from Mau Sadar seat as a candidate of the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party, an allay of the Samajwadi Party. As the administration was creating hurdles in filing my father’s nomination papers, I have filed the nomination today, Ansari told reporters. He alleged that the senior Ansari had been unconstitutionally kept in jail and that he will go to the people and take up their issues. Mau will go to polls in the seventh and last phase on March 7.

Claiming historic voting for the SP-RLD candidates, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Monday said the people have subdued the garmi (haughtiness) of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in the first two phases of the UP assembly elections. Yadav took on Adityanath saying he used to claim ahead of the elections that khoon ki garmi (haughtiness, enthusiasm) of the SP and RLD leaders would be subdued after the elections.

The Samajwadi Party on Monday alleged that tablets were distributed to students at a college here in violation of the model code of conduct for elections. Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Gajendra Kumar, however, said the tablets were distributed after permission from the Election Commission (EC). The tablet distribution took place in the PSM College this morning in which over 100 students were given tablets, the party claimed. When the SP leaders came to know about it, they reached the college and protested.

Samajwadi Party leaders say they want to work for development. Whom do they want to develop, themselves, their family, their siblings, or the people of Uttar Pradesh?: BJP President JP Nadda in Kursi, Barabanki

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday launched a blistering attack on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, saying his ”goons” encroached on land belonging to the poor in five years, while the Yogi Adityanath government used bulldozers and freed land worth over Rs 2,000 crore. Addressing an election rally in support of BJP’s ally Apna Dal (S) candidate in Mauranipur, Shah said, ”In five years, Akhilesh’s goons occupied government and poor people’s land, but Yogi Adityanth got land worth Rs 2,000 crore freed by using bulldozers.” ”He (Akhilesh) provided different posts to 45 members of his family in the five years, while Prime Minister Modi sent 45 schemes to your houses,” he said.

Indian cricketer Mohammed Shami cast his vote during the second phase of Assembly elections in Amroha. “My appeal to the people is to come out and cast their votes,” Mohammed Shami said.

Polling officials seal Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) and VVPATs after conclusion of second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections; visuals from a polling booth in Rampur Assembly constituency.

Residents of Narau village in Shekhupur Assembly constituency of Badaun boycotted voting for Assembly polls. “Villagers are protesting against inflow of wastewater from Ujhani Nagar Palika into the village that inundates their farms & pollutes potable water,” SDM says.

The voting turnout in the second phase in Uttar Pradesh has been recorded at 60.44% till 5pm. The districts of Amroha, Moradabad and Saharanpur have recorded the highest turnout among the districts in second phase.

Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Maywati on Monday said her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is contesting the ongoing assembly polls with ”full might” in order to usher in ’achche din’ of governance in the state like it had done in 2007. Addressing a public event in Orai in Jalaun district of the Jhansi zone, where elections are scheduled on February 20 in the third phase of the polls, she went all guns blazing against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress and Samajwadi Party (SP) as she pointed out the ills of their regimes in the state.

Samajwadi Party alleges VVPAT machine is throwing the slip of BJP on voting for Samajwadi Party at booth number 170 in Behat Assembly constituency in Saharanpur district. “The allegation has been found to be totally baseless,” says Additional CEO Brahm Dev Ram Tiwari.

Reiterating his ‘warning’ of Uttar Pradesh becoming like Kerala, West Bengal, or Kashmir if the BJP was not reelected, UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath said he had ‘alerted’ the people of the state ahead of the assembly elections. In response to the backlash over his remark that Uttar Pradesh, Adityanath told ANI in an interview that people were coming from Bengal and spreading anarchy in UP. “For this, it was necessary to alert people against it saying that ‘be alert – the security, respect that you are getting, people have come to disrupt that and do not let that happen’. It was my responsibility to alert people,” he said.

“BJP has been in power for two terms, why can’t they talk about anything without bringing Congress in between? No one can finish Congress; country has a constitution and freedom because of Congress. It doesn’t matter what PM Modi or UP CM Yogi say,” Maharashtra Congress chief Nana Patole said in response to Yogi’s statement on Congress.

People in Jhansi have announced that they will not get tricked by BJP’s fake promises. Small leaders of BJP are telling small lies, big leaders are telling big lies and their top leader is telling the biggest lies: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in Jhansi

The voting turnout in the second phase in Uttar Pradesh has been recorded at 51.93% till 3pm. The districts of Amroha, Moradabad and Saharanpur have recorded the highest turnout among the districts in second phase.

“Nobody can make up for the absence of Azam sahab. But if someone thinks that putting an innocent person behind bars is good, it is BJP’s misunderstanding. People consider it bad. They’ll see the reaction on 10th March,” Abdullah Azam Khan, son of Azam Khan and SP candidate from Suar said.

“The siblings (Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra) are enough to ruin the Congress. No one else is needed for that,” Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said.

When Akhilesh was in power, around 200 farmers died due to draught and starvation and over 300 cases of suicide were reported. When BJP came to power, it started India-Israel Bundelkhand water project to do away with problem of water scarcity: Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Jhansi