Lucknow. The schedule for the election of 36 members of the local authority area in the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council has been announced. This election will be held in two phases. In the first phase, the notification for the election of 30 seats in 29 constituencies will be issued on February 4. Voting will be held on March 3. The notification for the six seats in the second phase will be issued on February 10 while the polling will be held on March 7. Counting of votes will be held simultaneously on March 12.
Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla released the election schedule on Friday. In the first phase, the nomination papers will be filled from February 4 to February 11. Scrutiny of nomination papers will be done on February 14, names can be withdrawn on 16. On March 3, polling will be held from 8 am to 4 pm. Similarly, the notification for the second phase will be issued on February 10. Nomination forms will be filled by February 17. Scrutiny of nomination papers will be held on February 18. Names can be withdrawn on 21. Voting will be held on March 7. The counting of votes for both the phases will be held simultaneously on March 12. The voting for these seats in the local authority area is being held on the day of polling for the sixth and seventh phases of the Legislative Assembly elections.
The 36 seats in local authority constituencies in the hundred-seat Legislative Council change the math of political parties here. The Samajwadi Party had won 31 seats in the 2016 elections. The BSP won two seats. Dinesh Pratap Singh of Congress won from Rae Bareli. Brijesh Kumar Singh from Banaras and Vishal Singh from Ghazipur were elected ‘playful’. Dinesh Pratap Singh later joined the BJP. This election is also important because BJP would like to get majority in the Legislative Council by winning maximum number of seats, while SP will try to save its seats.
These 30 seats will be elected in the first phase: Moradabad-Bijnor, Rampur-Bareilly, Badaun, Pilibhit-Shahjahanpur, Hardoi, Kheri, Sitapur, Lucknow-Unnao, Rae Bareli, Pratapgarh, Sultanpur, Barabanki, Bahraich, Azamgarh-Mau, Ghazipur, Jaunpur, Varanasi, Mirzapur-Sonbhadra, Allahabad, Banda-Hamirpur, Jhansi-Jalaun-Lalitpur, Kanpur-Fatehpur, Etawah-Farrukhabad, Agra-Firozabad, Mathura-Eta-Mainpuri, Aligarh, Bulandshahr, Meerut-Ghaziabad, Muzaffarnagar-Saharanpur. (Note-Two members are elected from Mathura-Etah-Mainpuri seat, one member each is elected from all other constituencies.)
The elections will be held in the second phase on these six seats: Gonda, Faizabad, Basti-Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur-Maharajganj, Deoria and Ballia local authority areas.
They can cast their vote: Members of Municipal Corporations, Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats, District Panchayats, Kshetra Panchayats and Cantonment Boards vote in the election of local authority constituency in the Legislative Council. There were a total of 1,27,491 voters in the 2016 election. The election was held at 938 polling stations. This number is expected to be around 1.40 lakh in this election. Chief Electoral Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said that the election program has been released, now the work of preparing the new voter list will also start.
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