UP polls: Over 53 per cent polling till 5 pm

In Uttar Pradesh, over 53 per cent voting was recorded till 5 pm in the sixth phase of the  Assembly polls on Thursday. The prominent faces among the 676 candidates for 57 seats spread across 10 districts in this phase include Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban and state Congress president Ajay Kumar Lallu from Tamkuhi Raj.The voting started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm. Around 2.15 crore people are eligible to vote in this phase.The districts where polling is being held on Thursday are Ambedkarnagar, Balrampur, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia.

Those who cast their votes in the morning included Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Basic Education Minister Satish Dwivedi, Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chowdhury, Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party chief Om Prakash Rajbhar, minister Upendra Tiwari and former minister Narad Rai. So far, voting for 292 of the 403 Assembly seats has been completed.  Additional Chief Electoral Officer (ACEO) BDR Tiwari said that polling was going on peacefully in the state.The final phase of polling in the remaining 54 seats will be held on March 7.