Uttar Pradesh elections: CEC Nasim Zaidi to visit Lucknow today to review poll preparedness

New Delhi: Chief Election Commissioner Nasim Zaidi and senior EC officials will visit Lucknow on Wednesday to review poll preparedness for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.

The seven-phased UP Assembly polls for 403 constituencies will be held on February 11, 15, 19, 23, 27, March 4 and 8.

The crucial contest is being fiught between Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

The total number of Assembly Constituencies are 403, out of which 84 are reserved for Scheduled Castes and 2 for Scheduled Tribes.

The number of polling stations are as follows: 147148