Election 2022 highlights: Mamata faces protest in Varanasi, shown black flags

Assembly Election 2022 updates: The 57 assembly seats of the Purvanchal belt will go to the polls on March 3, for which campaigning ended on Tuesday.

Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh are being held in seven phases. Voting for the remaining two phases will take place on March 3, and 7.(PTI)

All eyes are on Gorakhpur for the sixth phase of the assembly elections as the fate of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath will be sealed in the EVM on March 3. The voting for the sixth phase of the assembly polls will take place in 57 Assembly seats across 10 districts.  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) dominated the seats in this belt in the last assembly elections as it won 46 of 57 seats while its ally Apna Dal won one seat. ...Read More

 

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• Mar 02, 2022 10:04 pm IST

  Watch | Mamata Banerjee faces protest in Varanasi

  Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee faced protest in Varanasi where she was set to campaign for Samajwadi Party head Akhilesh Yadav. The Bengal CM was greeted with black flags, Jai Shri Ram and pro-Modi slogans.

• Mar 02, 2022 04:17 pm IST

  Will campaign for Akhilesh Yadav in Varanasi: Mamata Banerjee

  Bengal CM and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee said she was going to Varanasi to campaign for Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav. “I will go to the temple. I am taking the blessings of people and going to UP,” Banerjee was quoted as saying by news agency ANI from the Kolkata airport.

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Here are the 57 seats which are going to polls on March 3
Katehari, Tanda, Alapur (SC), Jalalpur, Akbarpur, Tulsipur, Gainsari, Utraula, Balrampur (SC), Shohratgarh, Kapilvastu (SC), Bansi, Itwa, Domariyaganj, Harraiya, Kaptanganj, Rudhauli, Basti Sadar, Mahadewa (SC), Menhdawal, Khalilabad, Dhanghata (SC), Pharenda, Nautanwa, Siswa, Maharajganj (SC), Paniyra, Caimpiyarganj, Pipraich, Gorakhpur Urban, Gorakhpur Rural, Sahajanwa, Khajani (SC), Chauri-Chaura, Bansgaon (SC), Chillupar, Khadda, Padrauna, Tamkuhi Raj, Fazilnagar, Kushinagar, Hata, Ramkola (SC), Rudrapur, Pathardeva, Rampur Karkhana, Bhatpar Rani, Salempur (SC), Barhaj, Belthara Road, Rasra, Sikandarpur, Phephna, Ballia Nagar, Bansdih and Bairiya.