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Lucknow, April 25 (UNI) Polling for eight parliamentary constituencies spread over nine districts of Uttar Pradesh in the second phase of the Lok Sabha election will be held, amid tight security arrangements on Friday, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Navdeep Rinwa said here on Thursday. Rinwa said that the polling will be held from 7 am
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Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer of UP, said there were allegations that the district administration was not allowing people to cast their votes in some areas, but poll panel officials checked the polling booth through the pre-installed CCTV cameras and found voting was going on smoothly
In the 2019 general elections, the BJP clinched three of the eight seats: Pilibhit, Kairana, and Muzaffarnagar. The Samajwadi Party emerged victorious in Moradabad and Rampur, while the Bahujan Samaj Party secured Saharanpur, Bijnor, and Nagina