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Campaign reaches peak on Thursday for sixth phase of UP Assembly Election

| | Mar 02, 2017, at 08:09 pm
Lucknow, Mar 2 (IBNS): With campaigning for the sixth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections ending on Thursday, all parties are busy reaching out to the people.

The sixth of the seven phase election in UP will take place on Saturday.

Key leaders of all major political parties are holding multiple rallies and roadshows at various places in eastern Uttar Pradesh, according to media reports.

Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav is slated to address six rallies in Ballia, while Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah is holding roadshows in Gorakhpur.

Akhilesh’s wife and MP Dimple Yadav is holding three rallies in Azamgarh.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that common people are angry with the politics of caste and community polarisation followed by SP and BSP in the ongoing UP Assembly elections, media reported.

The districts going to polls in the sixth phase are Mau, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Gorakhpur, Deoria, Azamgarh and Ballia.

Image: Amit Shah Twitter

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