(F.E)
Amid reports of technical snag in EVMs at some places, polling is going on peacefully in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday with an average of over 20 per cent votes being cast in the first four hours, Election Commission officials said. Polling, which started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm, is going on peacefully, they added. The electoral battle in UP began today with first phase polling on 58 seats across 11 districts in western UP.
The ministers whose fate will be decided in this phase include Shrikant Sharma, Suresh Rana, Sandeep Singh, Kapil Dev Aggarwal, Atul Garg and Chowdhury Lakshmi Narayan. Other prominent candidates in the fray include Pankaj Singh, BJP’s state vice president and son of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, late BJP MP Hukum Singh’s daughter Mriganka Singh and Samajwadi Party candidate Nahid Hasan, who was arrested on January 16 under the Gangster Act.
