Ministers whose fate would be decided in the first phase include Shrikant Sharma, Suresh Rana, Sandeep Singh, Kapil Dev Agarwal, Atul Garg and Chowdhury Lakshmi Narain.
An average 7.93 per cent votes were polled in the first two hours of polling in Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, Election Commission officials said. Polling, which started at 7 am and will continue till 6 pm, is going on peacefully, they added. Polling is being held in 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts in the western part of the state in the first phase.