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Uttar Pradesh State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar introduced at a press convention on April 9 that the urban native body polls can be held in two phases— on May 4 and May 11, whereas counting of votes is on May 13.
In the primary section, 37 districts underneath 9 administrative divisions of Agra, Jhansi, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Prayagraj, Lucknow, Varanasi, Devipatan and Gorakhpur will go to polls. Voting for the second section can be held in Chitrakoot, Ayodhya, Basti, Azamgarh, Meerut, Bareilly, Aligarh, Kanpur and Mirzapur administrative divisions.
These elections, throughout 760 urban native our bodies, can be held on 14,684 posts in U.P.— together with 17 mayoral seats and 1,420 councillor posts. The elections are thought-about semi-finals for political events going into the 2024 Lok Sabha polls in U.P.
U.P. being politically essentially the most essential State within the nation, would ship 80 members within the Lok Sabha. All events together with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Samajwadi Party (SP) have deputed senior leaders in districts, to supervise the social gathering’s preparation.
The urban body polls in U.P. are going down after the Supreme Court allowed the State Election Commission to situation a notification in two days, with an Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota consistent with the report of the lately constituted Uttar Pradesh Backward Classes Commission.
