UP Urban Local Body Polls 2023 LIVE Updates: Over 20 Per Cent Voter Turnout So Far, Most In Noida, Ayodhya

UP Nikay Chunav 2023 Latest Updates: The urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh are considered significant as political parties are trying to showcase their strength ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.

LIVE Updates | UP Urban Local Body Polls 2023: Final Phase Of Voting To Begin Shortly

Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls live updates: Voting for the second and the final phase of urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh is currently under and is being held in 38 districts, including Ghaziabad, Meerut, Shahjahanpur, Bareilly, Aligarh, Kanpur and Ayodhya. Voting began at 7 am today and will continue till 6 pm. According to the State Election Commission (SEC), over 1.92 crore voters are eligible to cast their votes to elect their representatives in the second phase.

In the final phase of UP local body polls, as many as 39,146 candidates are in the fray for 6,929 posts, which includes seven mayors and 581 corporators. Apart from this, voting will be held to elect 95 chairpersons and 2,520 members of nagar palika parishads, and 267 chairpersons and 3,459 members of various nagar panchayats. The SEC said 77 representatives, including nine corporators in this round, have been elected unopposed.

The first phase of voting was held on May 4 and the votes for both phases will be counted on May 13. The polls are considered significant as political parties are trying to showcase their strength ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. 

Stay tuned with Zee News to get the latest updates on UP Urban Local Body Polls 2023:

11 May 2023

14:30 IST

UP ULB Elections 2023: Several ministers cast their votes 

UP ULB Elections 2023: Several prominent leaders were among the early voters including state Finance Minister Suresh Khanna who exercised his franchise at a school located at Diwan Jograj, Cooperatives Minister JPS Rathore and PWD Minister Jitin Prasad, who voted in Shahjahanpur.

Speaker of the state Assembly Satish Mahana also cast his vote in Kanpur and minister of state (independent charge) for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Arun Kumar in Bareilly.

Union minister and Apna Dal leader Anupriya Patel cast her vote in Mirzapur and said that efforts were on to ensure the progress of the district. Apna Dal, notably, is an alliance partner of the BJP.

14:28 IST

UP Nikay Chunav 2023 Latest Updates: BJP indulging in malpractices, alleges SP 

UP Nikay Chunav 2023 Latest Updates: The Samajwadi Party has alleged that supporters of the BJP were indulging in malpractices, especially in Kannauj. In a series of tweets, the main opposition party accused members of the ruling party of indulging in fake voting in the Gursahaiganj polling booth of Kannauj. It also alleged that BJP MP Subrat Pathak and his supporters were misbehaving with SP workers and voters at another booth in Kannauj and appealed to the State Election Commission to take notice of it.

The Akhilesh Yadav-led party claimed that the husband of an Independent nominee in Kanpur's Ghatampur was shot and also alleged that Dalits and OBCs were being denied voting rights.