Polling ended peacefully in 58 constituencies during the first phase of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh today. The Election Commission put the voting percentage at 60.17, which is about 1 per cent less than the figure for the 2017 Assembly elections. There were reports of technical snags in
On the eve of the first phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a blistering attack on rival Samajwadi Party today said family-based parties were the biggest danger to democracy and such parties were destroying the country. In a wide-ranging interview to a news agency, t
The battle for Uttar Pradesh began on Thursday with polling at 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts in the western part of the state. Polling started at 7.00 am and will continue till 6.00 pm, officials of the state election commission said here. Campaigning in the constituencies going to vote in the first round of the seven-phase election in the politically crucial