59 constituencies to vote in third phase of UP polls on Sunday

Lucknow: Voting for fifty nine meeting constituencies unfold throughout sixteen districts of Uttar Pradesh will take region on Sunday withinside the 1/3 section of the polls.

Campaigning for the 1/3 section of the kingdom elections ended on Friday, with senior leaders of the events creating a very last attempt to woo voters.

As many as 627 applicants are withinside the fray on this section, wherein over 2.15 crore human beings are eligible to vote.

Districts wherein polling can be held are Hathras, Firozabad, Etah, Kasganj, Mainpuri, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Etawah, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hamirpur and Mahoba.

The Karhal meeting seat, from wherein Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav is contesting, may also visit the polls withinside the 1/3 section on Sunday.

The BJP has fielded Union minister S P Singh Baghel from the seat.

Polling on Sunday may also seal the destiny of the Samajwadi Party leader's uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav, who's contesting from his conventional Jaswantnagar seat.

Before the campaigning ended for the 1/3 section on Friday, Congress trendy secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra undertook a door-to-door march in Kanpur, Kalpi, Jalaun and Hamirpur, whilst BSP leader Mayawati addressed election conferences in Jalaun and Auraiya.

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav sought votes for his son Akhilesh Yadav in Karhal.

The BJP had approached the Election Commission searching for deployment of paramilitary forces in any respect cubicles in Karhal.

Among the distinguished faces withinside the fray on this section are BJP's Satish Mahana (Maharajpur in Kanpur) and Ramvir Upadhaya (Sadabad in Hathras) and Louise Khurshid, who's contesting at the Congress' price price tag from Farrukhabad Sadar.

Louise Khurshid is the spouse of senior Congress chief Salman Khurshid.

Former IPS officer Asim Arun is contesting from Kannauj Sadar at the BJP price price tag, whilst Uttar Pradesh minister Ramnaresh Agnihotri is likewise withinside the fray on this section.

In the 2017 elections, the BJP had gained forty nine of the fifty nine seats whilst the SP had settled for nine. The Congress had were given one seat, whilst the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) drew a blank.

Polling will start at 7 am on Sunday and retain until 6 pm.

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