UP Polls: All Eyes On Ayodhya, BJP Looks To Maintain Dominance In Phase 5

In Uttar Pradesh, BJP and allies maintain dominant affect over the central and Awadh area seats that vote as we speak. All eyes will likely be on temple city Ayodhya which was the epicentre of the motion for the development of a Ram temple. BJP MLA VP Gupta will contest towards Pawan Pandey from the Samajwadi Celebration on this seat. Mr Pandey was dubbed the 2012 “large killer” from this seat after defeating a five-term BJP MLA.

Prayagraj, previously Allahabad, will vote as we speak. The town is dwelling to the “Sangam”, a sacred Hindu web site, and in addition has a sizeable pupil inhabitants from all communities owing to quite a few teaching centres. Former Congress bastion Amethi additionally votes as we speak.

This section is essential for the BJP because the social gathering and its allies received 50 of the 61 seats right here within the 2017 elections. A resurgent Samajwadi Celebration led by Akhilesh Yadav is the BJP’s largest challenger right here.

Whereas the BJP has centered on motion towards criminals and mafias because the ballot pitch on this section, the opposition events have cornered the BJP on the problem of stray cattle. Unemployment and rural misery are different main points that the opposition has been bullish on.

The districts going to the polls as we speak embody Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabaki, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda.

Outstanding amongst these within the fray for the fifth section embody Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, who’s contesting from the Sirathu meeting seat within the Kaushambi district. He’s going through Apna Dal (Kamerawadi) candidate Pallavi Patel. Different ministers who’re within the fray are Siddharth Nath Singh from Allahabad West, Rajendra Singh alias Moti Singh from Patti (Pratapgarh), Nand Gopal Gupta Nadi from Allahabad South and Ramapati Shastri from Mankapur (Gonda).

Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya, who’s the MLA from Kunda since 1993, is as soon as once more within the fray from his social gathering Jansatta Dal along with his outdated aide Gulshan Yadav pitted towards him on a Samajwadi Celebration ticket.

Union Minister Anupriya Patel’s mom and Apna Dal (Okay) chief Krishna Patel can be contesting from the Pratapgarh seat. Apna Dal (Okay) has entered into an alliance with the Samajwadi Celebration. Union Minister Anupriya Patel, heading a rival faction of the social gathering named after her father Sonelal Patel, nevertheless, has handed over the seat to the BJP to problem her mom, Krishna Patel.

Congress legislature social gathering chief Aradhana Mishra Mona is preventing from Rampur Khas seat of Pratapgarh.

After section 4 of polling within the state on February 23, 231 of UP’s 403 meeting seats have already voted.