Nearly 60 per cent voting was recorded till 4 PM in the second phase polling in 67 Assembly constituencies across 11 districts of western Uttar Pradesh.
Polling is going on peacefully in Bijnor, Saharanpur, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Bareilly, Amroha, Pilibhit, Kheri, Shahjahanpur and districts, and will end at 5 PM.
In the second of the seven-phase polling, 2.28 crore voters, including over 1.04 crore women, are eligible to cast their ballots at 14,771 polling centres and 23,693 polling stations.
“Polling is going on peacefully amid tight security,” UP Chief Electoral Officer T Venkatesh said.
Voter turnout, in the first phase on February 11 (rpt February 11), was recorded at 64.2 per cent – an increase of nearly three per cent from the first phase turnout in 2012.
At Bareilly, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi’s 115-year-old grandfather Z H Kazmi cast his ballot assisted by his young family members.
