The district authorities of Pratapgarh have decided to place MLA and Jansatta Dal leader Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bahaiya and seven other political leaders of the district under house arrest during polling on Monday.
These leaders will however be allowed to move out only for casting their vote.
The leaders to be kept under house arrest include independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh, Vinod Saroj (MLA), district president of Samajwadi Party Chhavinath Yadav, SP leader Gulshan Yadav and five others.
Kunda and Babaganj, both in Pratapgarh district, are two assembly segments of Kaushambi Lok Sabha constituency where polling will be held in the fifth phase on Monday.
The district officials said on Sunday that in order to conduct free and fair polls, eight political leaders in the district would be kept under house arrest during polling hours.