UP assembly goes to poll, with the beginning of voting for phase 1

Starting from today (10th February), the UP assembly commences its battle for 58 assembly constituencies spread over 11 districts in the western part of the state, a crucial part that can have a huge influence over the election results.

The 11 districts going to poll today are Mathura, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar, Hapur, Shamli, Baghpat, Aligarh, Agra, and Gautam Buddha Nagar, with all of them, have declared a holiday so that citizen can exercise their right to vote.

“There will be a holiday in all eleven districts of Western Uttar Pradesh which are set to go to polls so that citizens can exercise their right to vote,” said Additional Chief Electoral Officer of Uttar Pradesh BD Ram Tiwari while talking to ANI.

Voting will commence at 7 am, according to the covid-19 guidelines issued by the Election Commission. Keeping in mind the need for social distancing there has been an increase in the booth polls, to 25,849 polling stations.

Chief Electoral Officer Ram Tiwari said that those citizens who have their names in the electoral rolls but have lost their voter ID cards can still exercise their voting rights by showing other 12 photo identity cards like Aadhar Card, MNREGA Job card, passbooks, passport, Service ID, PAN Card, Unique Disability cards, etc.

Updated by Preet Joshi