- 61 percent voting was recorded till 5 pm in the fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh election
- 53 assembly constituencies go into polls in this phase
- In all, 1.84 crore voters, including 1,034 voters from the third gender, will use their franchise
- Raebareli, Sonia Gandhi’s constituency is voting in this phase though she did not campaign in these elections
- In the 2012 assembly polls, the Congress had managed to wrest only six seats in these constituencies
- There are a total of 680 candidates in the fray in the fourth phase, of which 61 are women
61% Voting Till 5pm
The fourth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh recorded a voter turnout of 61 percent till 5 pm. A total of Rs 13.49 crore was seized in cash by EC officials and 3.26 lakh litre of liquor worth Rs 8.17 crore was seized, reported the Election Commissioner.
55% Voting Recorded Till 4 pm
A voter turnout of 55 percent was recorded till 4 pm in the fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh polls. The polling time has now ended.
Akhilesh Yadav is Afraid of Donkeys: PM Modi
Campaigning for the fifth phase of election in Bahraich, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said that Akhilesh Yadav is afraid of donkeys of Gujarat.
“Can understand if Akhilesh attacks me or the BJP, but he has attacked donkeys even though they are thousand of kms away,” he said.
Modi also said that when Congress was in power as part of the UPA, it came out with postal stamp on donkeys.
Talking about the SP-Congress alliance, he said that Congress is a sinking ship and will take SP along with it.
The BJP Will Ban Slaughter Houses: Amit Shah
Campaigning for the fifth phase of, BJP President Amit Shah said that the BJP would ban slaughterhouses in Uttar Pradesh.
Congress, SP, BSP shed buffalo blood but the BJP would make rivers of milk and honey flow. He also told people that the people in the crowd did not get a laptop from Akhilesh Yadav because they were from a different religion.
On Wednesday, Shah had made yet another controversial statement when he coined another acronym for the Opposition.