Campaigning for last phase of UP civic polls ends

Campaigning for the third phase of urban local body elections in Uttar Pradesh ended today for districts where polling would be held on Wednesday.
As many as 26 districts will go to polls in the last and final phase.
State Election Commissioner SK Agarwal today held a video conference with District Magistrates and Superintendents of police of the poll-bound districts.
Polling for the first phase was held on November 22, while the second phase took place on November 26.
Counting of votes for all the three phases will be done on December 1 and results will be declared the same day.

The ongoing urban local body election, involving over 3.3 crore voters in the 75 districts of the state, is being seen as a test for the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government.
According to the State Election Commission, the districts which would witness polling on November 29 are: Saharanpur, Baghpat, Bulandshahr, Moradabad, Sambhal, Etah, Firozabad, Kannauj, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Jhansi, Mahoba, Fatehpur, Rae Bareli, Sitapur, Lakhimpur Khiri, Barabanki, Balrampur, Siddharthanagar, Maharajganj, Kushinagar, Mau, Chandauli, Jaunpur and Mirzapur.