Amid the ongoing seven-phase UP assembly elections, the Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor Arvind Kejriwal is all set to visit the Uttar Pradesh capital of Lucknow today. With this, the Delhi chief minister, will begin the tour with an address at a public meeting in the state capital's Qaisarbagh area, party spokesperson Vaibhav Maheshwari said. The Aam Aadmi Party Twitter shared that Kejriwal will address public meetings in Ramnagar, Lucknow and Barabanki.
Kejriwal begins his four-day Uttar Pradesh tour from Monday to drum up support for party candidates in the ongoing assembly polls, AAP office-bearers said. “Kejriwal will also be visiting Barabanki and Prayagraj and Gorakhpur during the four-day visit and join various election-related programmes of the AAP," Maheshwari said. Kejriwal will be joined by the party's Uttar Pradesh in-charge Sanjay Singh, and three-four MLAs from Delhi, where the party is in power, he added. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will be contesting the assembly polls from Gorakhpur (Sadar) seat.
Meanwhile, in the third of the seven phase polls in Uttar Pradesh, over 61% polling was recorded till 5 pm. The voting for the remaining phases of the Uttar Pradesh election will continue on February 23, February 27, March 3 and March 7. The average voter turnout for the single-phase elections to the 117-member assembly in Punjab was 69.65%, while in Uttar Pradesh, where 59 constituencies went to polls in phase three, it was 61.61 per cent, according to 5 pm voting percentage data updated by the Election Commission's Voter Turnout App at midnight.
Additionally, the polling in Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa has been completed, the two-phase Manipur elections shall take place on February 28 and March 5. The results of all the elections will be declared on March 10.
(With inputs from agencies)
