AsAssembly Election 2022 Live Updates: Polling for 4th phase begins; PM Modi urges UP to votesembly Election 2022 Live Updates: Polling for 4th phase begins; PM Modi urges UP to vote

The fourth phase of polling will decide the fate of 624 candidates of Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda and Fatehpur. Lakhimpur grabbed national news headlines after eight people, including four farmers, were killed in violence on October 3. Whereas in Rae Bareli, which is considered a Congress bastion, Aditi Singh is contesting for the BJP. She was earlier with the Congress party. In Unnao, the Congress has fielded 55-year-old Asha Singh, the mother of the girl who was allegedly raped by former BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar. While Sengar is currently in jail, Asha Singh is up against the BJP’s sitting MLA Pankaj Gupta and Dr Abhinav Kumar of the Samajwadi Party.

Meanwhile, Congress general secretary Harish Rawat shared a video Tuesday, alleging that it shows one person at an Army centre ticking and signing several postal ballot papers. “Will the Election Commission take cognisance of this?” Rawat’s tweet read. When asked about the tweet, Rawat’s spokesman Surendra Kumar refused to disclose the source of the video but claimed that it is from Uttarakhand. The party has not made a formal complaint to the EC in this regard yet but it can take suo motu cognisance of it, he told PTI.

Of the 59 seats going to polls in the fourth phase, the BJP had won 51 in the 2017 Assembly elections, four had gone to the Samajwadi Party, and three to the Bahujan Samaj Party. The BJP’s ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) had bagged one seat.

Among the prominent candidates in this phase is Uttar Pradesh Law Minister Brijesh Pathak who is facing Samajwadi party candidate and two-time corporator Surendra Singh Gandhi in the Lucknow Cantonment seat. Pathak had won the Lucknow Central seat in 2017. Another minister Ashutosh Tandon is in the fray from the Lucknow East seat and is being challenged by SP’s national spokesperson Anurag Bhadauria.

The Sarojini Nagar Assembly segment will witness a battle between former ED officer Rajeshwar Singh fielded by the BJP and Abhishek Mishra who had been a minister in the Samajwadi Party government.

Deputy Speaker of Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly Nitin Agarwal, who had crossed over to the BJP from the Samajwadi Party, will face the electoral test in this phase.

With Thanks Refrence to: https://indianexpress.com/elections/assembly-election-uttar-pradesh-4th-phase-lakhimpur-rae-bareli-live-updates-7786180/