Notification For Four-Phased UP Panchayat Polls Issued, Results On May 2

Lucknow, March 26 (TNA) Notification for the Panchayat Polls in Uttar Pradesh was issued by the State Election Commission on Friday. The much-awaited polls would be held in four phases on April 15, 19, 26 and 29. Result will be declared on May 2, an official communique further said.

In the first phase, 18 districts would be covered, in second 20 districts, in the third phase 20 and in the fourth and final phase 17 districts would go for voting.

In the first phase, the district which go to polls include Saharanpur, Ghaziabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Hathras, Agra, Kanpur City, Jhansi, Mahoba, Prayagraj, Hardoi, Ayodhya, Shrawasti, Sant Kabeer Nagar, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur and Bhadohi.

In the second phase, voting for the Panchayats would be held in Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Bijnore, Amroha, Budayun, Etah, Mainpuri, Kannauj, Etawah, Lalitpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Lucknow, Lakhimpur Kheri, Gonda, Sultanpur, Maharajganj, Varanasi and Azamgarh.

In the third phase voting will be held in Shamli, Meerut, Moradabad, Pilibhit, Kasganj, Firozabad, Auraiyya, Kanpur rural, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Unnao, Amethi, Barabanki, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar Deoria, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Ballia.

Bulandshahr, Hapur, Sambhal, Shahjahanpur, Aligarh, Mathura, Farukkhabad, Banda, Kaushambi, Ambedkarnagar, Basti, Sitapur, Bahraich, Kushinagar, Ghazipur, Sonebhadra and Mau will go for polls.