Lucknow, Apr 17: Elaborate security arrangements have been made for &13;tomorrow's third phase polling for the assembly elections in 57 seats spread &13;across 10 districts in Uttar Pradesh.
The Indo-Nepal international border &13;across Pilibhit have been sealed off along with all the interstate borders. &13;Central Para Military Forces(CPMF) have taken control of the law and order &13;situation in these districts and were holding ' Flag Marches' to instill &13;confidence among voters.
More than 660 companies of CPMF along with &13;60,000 state police have been deployed for the third phase of polling which &13;include several communal sensitive regions like Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, &13;Bijnour, Sambhal and Bareilly.
The fate of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh &13;Yadav(Gunnaur), deputy speaker of the state legislative assembly Rajesh Agarwal &13;of BJP (Bareilly city), state Urban Development minister Mohammad Azam Khan &13;(Rampur) is among the 861 candidates who are contesting the elections. &13;Altogether there are 57 women candidates in the fray in the phase.
Umlesh &13;Yadav, mother of Vikas Yadav, who was convicted for the murder of Jessica Lall, &13;is also contesting from Bisauli seat. Her husband and former Rajya Sabha member &13;D P Yadav is also in the fray from Sahaswan assembly constituency in Badaun &13;district.
A total of 1.51 crore voters including, 82.1 lakh male and 69.1 &13;lakh female, will exercise their franchise at 14730 polling booths. &13;
About 17000 electronic Voting Machines(EVMs) will be used in this &13;phase.
Amroha seat has the maximum of 29 candidates while Gunnaur has the &13;minimum of 6 candidates in the fray.
The Election Commission has directed &13;district authorities to allow voters exercise their franchise even if they do &13;not possess Election Photo Identity Cards (EPICs). But the voters will have to &13;show at least one of the 15 alternative photo identities cleared by the &13;EC.
The poll campaigning for Phase-III was a lacklustre affair with Prime Minister &13;Manmohan Singh campaigning for the Congress. Dr Manmohan Singh addressed an &13;election rally in Pilibhit and Bijnour while Congress MP Rahul Gandhi covered &13;several districts through his roadshows for garnering support. The stakes for &13;the ruling Samajwadi Party are high in this phase as Gunnaur is constituency of &13;the Chief Minister and it also involves assembly seats of Kannauj, from where &13;his son Akhilesh Yadav is MP.
Veteran Congress leader Noor Bano will also &13;put in her efforts to win back some of the seats from Rampur and Moradabad even &13;as her son Kazim Ali, who won the 2002 polls on a Congress ticket, is contesting &13;on SP ticket this time.
State Congress president Salman Khurshid's home &13;district Farrukhabad will also go to polls in this phase. His wife Luise &13;Khurshid is trying her luck for the second time from Kayamganj seat.
BJP &13;MP Menaka Gandhi will also have prove her popularity in Pilibhit while young &13;Congress MP Jiten Prasada will fight all out in Shahjahanpur.
Pilibhit, &13;where Dr Singh projected Rahul Gandhi as the ''future of Uttar Pradesh'', is &13;being considered important for the Congress as it is termed ''mini Punjab'' with &13;majority of the voters belonging to the Sikh community. With reverses in Punjab &13;assembly elections still fresh in the minds of Congress leadership, the Prime &13;Minister's public meeting is expected to ensure gains for the party in the &13;district. The 'Terai' region, which also includes parts of Central UP, is &13;considered the rice bowl of UP.
In the 2002 assembly polls, the ruling &13;SP won the maximum 25 out of the 57 seats at stake in Phase-III, while BJP won &13;10, BSP 10, Congress 4, RLD 1, CPI(M) 1, Independents 4 and others 2.
In &13;the second phase, polling for which was held on Friday last, altogether 881 &13;candidates were in the fray for 58 seats. About 46 per cent of the electorate &13;had exercised their franchise in the polling.
In the first phase of &13;polling on April 7, the fate of as many as 839 candidates were sealed in the &13;EVMs where over 46 per cent of voters had cast ballots in 62 seats spread over &13;13 districts.
The districts going to poll in the phase are Bijnor, &13;Moradabad, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Rampur, Badaun, Bareilly, Pilibhit, &13;Shahjahanpur, Farrukhabad and Kannauj.
The constituencies are: Seohara, &13;Bareilly City, Dhampur, Nawabganj, Afzalgarh, Bhojipura, Nagina(SC), Kawar, &13;Najibabad(SC), Baheri, Bijnor, Pilibhit, Chandpur, Barkhera(SC), Kanth, &13;Bisalpur, Amroha, Puranpur, Hasanpur, Powayan(SC), Gangeshwari(SC), Nigohi, &13;Sambhal, Tilhar, Bahjoi, Jalalabad, Chandausi(SC), Dadraul, Kunderki, &13;Shahjahanpur, Moradabad West, Kannauj(SC), Moradabad, Umardha, Moradabad Rural, &13;Chhibramau, Thakurdwara, Kamalganj, Suartanda, Farrukhabad, Rampur, Kayamganj, &13;Bilaspur, Mohammdabad, Shahabad(SC), Bisauli, Gunnaur, Sahaswan, Bilsi(SC), &13;Usehat, Binawar, Dataganj, Aonla, Sunha, Faridpur(SC) and Bareilly &13;Cant.
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The Indo-Nepal international border &13;across Pilibhit have been sealed off along with all the interstate borders. &13;Central Para Military Forces(CPMF) have taken control of the law and order &13;situation in these districts and were holding ' Flag Marches' to instill &13;confidence among voters.
More than 660 companies of CPMF along with &13;60,000 state police have been deployed for the third phase of polling which &13;include several communal sensitive regions like Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, &13;Bijnour, Sambhal and Bareilly.
The fate of Chief Minister Mulayam Singh &13;Yadav(Gunnaur), deputy speaker of the state legislative assembly Rajesh Agarwal &13;of BJP (Bareilly city), state Urban Development minister Mohammad Azam Khan &13;(Rampur) is among the 861 candidates who are contesting the elections. &13;Altogether there are 57 women candidates in the fray in the phase.
Umlesh &13;Yadav, mother of Vikas Yadav, who was convicted for the murder of Jessica Lall, &13;is also contesting from Bisauli seat. Her husband and former Rajya Sabha member &13;D P Yadav is also in the fray from Sahaswan assembly constituency in Badaun &13;district.
A total of 1.51 crore voters including, 82.1 lakh male and 69.1 &13;lakh female, will exercise their franchise at 14730 polling booths. &13;
About 17000 electronic Voting Machines(EVMs) will be used in this &13;phase.
Amroha seat has the maximum of 29 candidates while Gunnaur has the &13;minimum of 6 candidates in the fray.
The Election Commission has directed &13;district authorities to allow voters exercise their franchise even if they do &13;not possess Election Photo Identity Cards (EPICs). But the voters will have to &13;show at least one of the 15 alternative photo identities cleared by the &13;EC.
The poll campaigning for Phase-III was a lacklustre affair with Prime Minister &13;Manmohan Singh campaigning for the Congress. Dr Manmohan Singh addressed an &13;election rally in Pilibhit and Bijnour while Congress MP Rahul Gandhi covered &13;several districts through his roadshows for garnering support. The stakes for &13;the ruling Samajwadi Party are high in this phase as Gunnaur is constituency of &13;the Chief Minister and it also involves assembly seats of Kannauj, from where &13;his son Akhilesh Yadav is MP.
Veteran Congress leader Noor Bano will also &13;put in her efforts to win back some of the seats from Rampur and Moradabad even &13;as her son Kazim Ali, who won the 2002 polls on a Congress ticket, is contesting &13;on SP ticket this time.
State Congress president Salman Khurshid's home &13;district Farrukhabad will also go to polls in this phase. His wife Luise &13;Khurshid is trying her luck for the second time from Kayamganj seat.
BJP &13;MP Menaka Gandhi will also have prove her popularity in Pilibhit while young &13;Congress MP Jiten Prasada will fight all out in Shahjahanpur.
Pilibhit, &13;where Dr Singh projected Rahul Gandhi as the ''future of Uttar Pradesh'', is &13;being considered important for the Congress as it is termed ''mini Punjab'' with &13;majority of the voters belonging to the Sikh community. With reverses in Punjab &13;assembly elections still fresh in the minds of Congress leadership, the Prime &13;Minister's public meeting is expected to ensure gains for the party in the &13;district. The 'Terai' region, which also includes parts of Central UP, is &13;considered the rice bowl of UP.
In the 2002 assembly polls, the ruling &13;SP won the maximum 25 out of the 57 seats at stake in Phase-III, while BJP won &13;10, BSP 10, Congress 4, RLD 1, CPI(M) 1, Independents 4 and others 2.
In &13;the second phase, polling for which was held on Friday last, altogether 881 &13;candidates were in the fray for 58 seats. About 46 per cent of the electorate &13;had exercised their franchise in the polling.
In the first phase of &13;polling on April 7, the fate of as many as 839 candidates were sealed in the &13;EVMs where over 46 per cent of voters had cast ballots in 62 seats spread over &13;13 districts.
The districts going to poll in the phase are Bijnor, &13;Moradabad, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Rampur, Badaun, Bareilly, Pilibhit, &13;Shahjahanpur, Farrukhabad and Kannauj.
The constituencies are: Seohara, &13;Bareilly City, Dhampur, Nawabganj, Afzalgarh, Bhojipura, Nagina(SC), Kawar, &13;Najibabad(SC), Baheri, Bijnor, Pilibhit, Chandpur, Barkhera(SC), Kanth, &13;Bisalpur, Amroha, Puranpur, Hasanpur, Powayan(SC), Gangeshwari(SC), Nigohi, &13;Sambhal, Tilhar, Bahjoi, Jalalabad, Chandausi(SC), Dadraul, Kunderki, &13;Shahjahanpur, Moradabad West, Kannauj(SC), Moradabad, Umardha, Moradabad Rural, &13;Chhibramau, Thakurdwara, Kamalganj, Suartanda, Farrukhabad, Rampur, Kayamganj, &13;Bilaspur, Mohammdabad, Shahabad(SC), Bisauli, Gunnaur, Sahaswan, Bilsi(SC), &13;Usehat, Binawar, Dataganj, Aonla, Sunha, Faridpur(SC) and Bareilly &13;Cant.
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