New Delhi: An average of 22.62 per cent voting was recorded today in the first four hours of polling in 59 Assembly constituencies spread over nine districts of Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission said.
The districts where the polling is being held are Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda, and Fatehpur.
This is the fourth of the seven phases of the Assembly polls in the State. As many as 624 candidates are in the fray in this round of voting.
Surrounded by scores of policemen and paramilitary personnel, Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni voted at a polling booth in Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur today.
The Minister flashed a V (for victory) sign as reporters shouted questions on his son Ashish Mishra, accused of running over farmers at Lakhimpur Kheri last year.
Ashish Mishra, jailed last October, was released on bail a week ago, in the middle of the UP election campaign.