Lucknow: The polling for the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly election will be held tomorrow in which at least 49 seats to witness voting.
Interestingly, in this region the main focus will be on Azamgarh which is the Lok Sabha constituency of Samajwadi Party patron Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Apart from Mulayam, assembly seats of Gorakhpur which is Lok Sabha constituency of BJP’s hardliner leader Yogi Adityanath, and Mau from where jailed gangster-turned-MLA Mukhtar Ansari were in fray, also figure in this second last phase of polling that will also cover some districts bordering Nepal.
Near about 1.72 crore voters will cast their votes which including 94.60 lakh men and about 77.84 lakh women will decide the fate of 635 candidates in this round.
The regions are going to witnessed polls tomorrow are Mau, Gorakhpur, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Deoria, Azamgarh and Ballia.
Lok Sabha constituency Azamgarh has maximum number of 10 assembly seats, in 2012 the ruling government of Samajwadi Party in the state had won nine seats, but this time its veteran leader Mulayam has not campaigned in his parliamentary constituency.
Besides that of Adityanath, the prestige of Union minister Kalraj Mishra, who represents Deoria in the Lok Sabha is also at stake.
Whereas BSP has fielded candidates on all 49 seats, SP is contesting 40 seats and Congress 9 seats under an alliance.
In this phase some of prominent candidates while includes BSP turncoat Swami Prasad Maurya from Padrauna (Kushinagar), former BJP state president Surya Pratap Shahi from Pathardeva (Deoria), Shyam Bahadur Yadav (SP), son of former Governor Ram Naresh Yadav from Fulpur Pawai (Azamgarh), SP turncoats Ambika Chowhdury and Narad Rai, who are contesting on BSP ticket from Fefna (Ballia) and Ballia Sadar respectively.
Mukhtar is contesting from Mau and his son Abbas is in fray from adjoining Ghosi seat in Mau district.
Out of total number of 49 seats, 27 were won by the SP, 9 by BSP, 7 by BJP, 4 by Congress and 2 by others in the 2012 Assembly polls.
The maximum numbers of 23 candidates are contesting from Gorakhpur and least seven candidates are in pitted for Mohammadabad Gohna seat in Mau district.
