Gonda, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Amethi and Sultanpur.
Gonda, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Amethi and Sultanpur.
The Eelction Commission has announced fresh date of voting in Alapur (Ambedkar Nagar constituency) on March 9 due to the death of Samajwadi Party candidate Chandrashekhar Kanaujia.
The ruling Samajwadi Party had won 37 seats out of 52 (total seats in this phase, including Alapur) in 2012 while BJP and Congress won five seats each. BSP had won three, while the Peace party won two seats.
Shravasti, Balrampur, Sultanpur and Ambedkar Nagar had emerged as strongholds of Samajwadi Party which won all the seats in the previous state polls.
In all, 608 candidates are in the fray in this phase with maximum of 24 candidates in Amethi and the minimum of six each in Kapilvastu and Etwa seats of Siddharth Nagar district.
Prominent contestants in this phase include controversial minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati (SP), who will be facing Amita Singh (Congress) and Garima Singh (BJP) in Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Rahul Gandhi.
Amita is the wife of Congress leader Sanjay Singh, while Garima is his estranged better half, making it a "rani versus rani" contest.
SP ministers Vinod Kumar Singh alias Pandit Singh from Tarabganj (Gonda), Tej Narain Pandey alias Pawan Pandey from Ayodhya and BSP state president Ram Achal Rajbhar from Akbarpur are some of the other popular names trying their luck in this phase.
A total of 1.84 crore voters, including 96 lakh women, will exercise their franchise in the fifth phase.
(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)
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