Elections begin in Punjab, with 59 UP seats up for grabs.

PAROMITA DAS

The third round of Uttar Pradesh elections began at 7 a.m. on Sunday, with voting on all Assembly seats in Punjab and 59 constituencies.

Over 2.14 crore voters in Punjab will decide the destiny of 1304 candidates from 117 constituencies. This time around, the state is witnessing a multi-cornered struggle, with the Congress, AamAadmi Party (AAP), ShiromaniAkali Dal-BahujanSamaj Party alliance, and the combination of BharatiyaJanata Party-former chief minister Amarinder Singh’s Punjab Lok Congress party as significant contenders.

The Congress’ chief ministerial candidate, Charanjit Singh Channi, is running for two seats: Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur.

In Amritsar, Punjab Congress chairman Navjot Singh Sidhu will face SAD’s Bikram Singh Majithia, AAP’s JeevanjyotKaur, and BJP’s Jagmohan Singh Raju (East).

Bhagwant Mann, the AAP’s CM candidate and LokSabha MP from Sangrur, is running for the Dhuri seat. Captain Amarinder Singh of the Punjab Lok Congress is running for reelection in the Patiala constituency. Parkash Singh Badal, a five-time Chief Minister and prominent ShiromaniAkali Dal leader, is running for Lambi, while SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal is running for Jalalabad.

Ashwani Kumar Sharma, the BJP’s Punjab unit president, is running in the Pathankot constituency.

On Sunday, 59 assembly seats across 16 districts will go to the polls in the third phase of Uttar Pradesh elections.

There are 627 candidates in the running. In the third round of Assembly elections, almost 2.16 crore voters were eligible to vote in 25,794 polling locations and 15,557 polling stations. Karhal, where former chief minister and Samajwadi Party head AkhileshYadav is running in his first Assembly election, is one of the crucial constituencies where voting began today.

Satya Pal Singh Baghel, Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Law and Justice, has been placed against AkhileshYadav by the BJP.

Shivpal Singh Yadav, Akhilesh’s uncle and the leader of the PragatisheelSamajwadi Party (Lohia), is running for the Jaswantnagar seat.

Uttar Pradesh elections are being held in seven phases and will finish on March 7.

Aside from UP, assembly elections in Goa and Uttarakhand have been finished. Manipur will hold elections in two stages, on February 28 and March 5. On March 10, the votes in Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Uttarakhand, Punjab, and Manipur will be counted.

 

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