Lucknow March 4 (IANS) Polling for 49 seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections began at 7 a.m on Saturday.
The over 1.72 crore electorate will decide the fate of 635 candidates across seven districts in eastern UP.
Prominent candidates in the fray include Bharatiya Janata Party s Swami Prasad Maurya (Padrauna) and former state unit chief Surya Pratap Shahi (Pathardeva) and jailed don Mukhtar Ansari contesting from Mau on a Bahujan Samaj Party ticket.
Maximum number of candidates are in Gorakhpur city where 127 candidates in fray for its nine seats while the minimum number of candidates - seven - are in Mohammadabad Gohna seat in Mau.
--IANS
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Voting begins in UP polls sixth phase
