Assembly Elections 2017 LIVE: 68% voting in Uttarakhand till 5 PM, 65% in Uttar Pradesh till

The high-decibel campaign for 67 seats in Uttar Pradesh witnessed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav touring extensively for the second phase of polls.

Polling for 69 Assembly seats in Uttarakhand and 67 constituencies spread across 11 districts in Uttar Pradesh is underway.

ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS 2017: 

While in Uttarakhand stakes are high for both the ruling Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the crucial Assembly polls, the second phase voting in Uttar Pradesh is of much importance for the ruling Samajwadi Party.

The SP holds 34 of the 67 seats, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) 17, the BJP 10 and the Congress four. Smaller outfits such as the Peace Party and Ittehadul-E-Millat Council had won one seat each in 2012.

LIVE UPDATES:

·         65.5 per cent voting in Uttar Pradesh till 5 PM

·         68 per cent voting reported in Uttarakhand till 5 PM

·         Nearly 60 per cent voting in Uttar Pradesh till 4 PM, 53 per cent in Uttarakhand till 3 PM.

·         54.27 per cent voter turnout recorded till 3 PM in second phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh

·         Uttar Pradesh abbreviation UP may be read as 'up', but everything is 'down' in the state: PM Modi at Kannauj.

·         Prime Minister Narendra  Modi addresses a rally in Kannauj, Uttar Pradesh.

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·         Nearly 39 per cent voting in Uttarakhand till 1 PM.

·         Clash between supporters of Azam Khan and BSP candidate Doctor Tanvir at Raza Degree College, Rampur

·         Over 25 per cent of the electorate cast their votes till noon in the second phase polling in 67 Assembly constituencies across 11 districts of western Uttar Pradesh.

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·         24.14 per cent voter turnout recorded till 11 am in the second phase of Uttar Pradesh elections.

 2nd phase: 115-year-old Zurriyat Hussain Kazmi, maternal grandfather of Union Min Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, casts his vote in Bareilly. 

 Voters in Aminabad village of Bijnor district have boycotted elections, citing lack of development.

·         Baba Ramdev casts his vote in Uttarakhand.

·         Congress's Indira Hridayesh casts her vote at booth no 17 in Haldwani. She's contesting against BSP's S Ahmad and BJP's JPS Rautela.

·         10.75 per cent voter turnout recorded in Uttar Pradesh till 9 AM.

 6% polling percentage recorded in the first hour of the Uttarakhand polls.

·         MoS Finance Santosh Gangwar casts his vote in Bareilly with wife Saubhagya Gangwar

·         11 per cent voter turnout recorded in Moradabad till 9 AM.

·         BJP's Uttarakhand president Ajay Bhatt casts his vote in Ranikhet.

·         12 percent voting in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh by 9 AM.

·         Former Union Min Jitin Prasada casts his vote at polling booth no. 162 at Shahjahanpur, Dr. Sudama Prasad Bal Vidya Mandir.

·         Voting process which had been halted at Badaun Sadar constituency's SK Inter College-booth no. 183, now resumes.

·          Glitch in EVM machine halts voting process at Badaun Sadar constituency's S.K.Inter College-booth no. 183.

·         Polling had to begin at 7 AM, but they are still in process of setting up machines: Voter at Moradabad polling booth no. 265

·         Security arrangements in place at a polling booth in Moradabad as 67 assembly constituencies will to go polls today 

·         Visuals from polling station 265-MH Degree College in Moradabad,people queue up to cast their votes as polling begins 

·         Polling begins for 67 Assembly constituencies of Uttar Pradesh in the second of seven phases.