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“There is a downfall in incidents related to goondaism and corruption but unemployment has risen…BJP is not fighting on the issue of development, they are fighting on the issue of Hindu-Muslim. Development won’t happen this way,” says Rajdeep Singh Patel, member of the panchayat in Mirzapur’s Bhawa village, outside his…

He was speaking in Auraiya which will go to polls in the third phase of voting slated for February 20

As per an official statement from the SP, party's state president Naresh Uttam Patel in the letter complained that Laxmi was "pressurizing to vote in favor of BJP candidate, which is affecting the election." Full story

He accuses BJP of polarising voters

The areas going to polls in this phase have a sizeable Muslim population influenced by religious leaders of the Barelvi and Deoband sects.

Second phase of polling for 55 seats in Uttar Pradesh

Samajwadi Party looks to avoid split in Yadav vote and send a message of unity to core vote bank

Researchers analyse how political parties used hashtags ahead of U.P. elections

Samajwadi Party president says BSP fighting polls to help BJP

As many as 586 candidates are in the fray in this phase with the seats spread across nine districts

Key to the BJP’s polarising pitch, the MP has the SP’s backing as a victim of the Yogi regime