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Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally ahead of the last phase of Lok Sabha polls, on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. - PTI
Voting will be held on Sunday for 13 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh, which will see Prime Minister Narendra Modi seeking re-election from Varanasi.
Polling will be held in Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Bansgaon (SC), Ghosi, Salempur, Ballia, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Mirzapur and Robertsganj (SC).
Union minister Manoj Sinha and Uttar Pradesh BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey are seeking re-election from Ghazipur and Chandauli, respectively.
The BJP is contesting 11 Lok Sabha seats in this phase, while its ally the Apna Dal (Sonelal) is contesting from Mirzapur, currently held by union minister Anupriya Patel, and Robertsganj.
The saffron party has pitted Bhojpuri actor Ravi Kishan from Gorakhpur against the Congress’s Madhusudan Tripathi and Rambhual Nishad of the Samajwadi Party.
Gorakhpur MP Pravin Nishad, who had won the seat on an SP ticket in by-polls last year, has joined the BJP. The party has fielded him from Sant Kabir Nagar seat.
Gorakhpur was represented by Yogi Adityanath in the Lok Sabha from 1998 to 2017, before he became the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh.
The electioneering saw Priyanka holding two back-to-back roadshows in Kushinagar and Mirzapur during the day and union minister Smriti Irani riding a scooty in Gorakhpur.
The final phase of the Lok Sabha polls in the state will also decide the fate of eight SP and five BSP candidates. In all, there are 167 candidates in the fray for the 13 seats.
The highest number of 26 candidates in the fray are from Varanasi, while Bansgaon has the least number of four candidates fighting the polls.
Over 2.32 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise in this phase in UP. As many as 25,874 polling booths have been set up in 13,979 polling centres in the final phase, the Election Commission said.
In the 2014 Lok Sabha poll, the BJP had won 71 out of 80 seats in the state, securing 42.63 per cent of the votes. BJP ally Apna Dal bagged two.
The Samajwadi Party had won five seats, with a vote share of 22.35 per cent. The BSP did not win any seat, while securing 19.77 per cent votes. The Congress registered wins on two UP seats, bagging 7.53 per cent of the votes.
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