With the campaigning for the first three phases of the Lok Sabha elections underway in Uttar Pradesh, the Election Commission of India (ECI) will issue the notification for the fourth phase of polls in the state for 13 Lok Sabha seats on Tuesday.
ECI sources on Monday said that after the issuance of the notification on Tuesday morning the nominations for 13 seats would commence. The polling for the fourth phase will be held on April 28. The nominations will continue till April 9 while on the next day, scrutiny of papers will be done. The candidates can withdraw their nominations till April 12.
The Lok Sabha seats going to polls in phase four are Shahjahanpur, Kheri, Hardoi, Mishrik, Unnao, Farrukhabad, Etawah, Kannauj, Kanpur, Akbarpur, Jalaun, Jhansi and Hamirpur.
There are a total of 2,38,88,367 voters in this phase with male voters accounting for 1,29,75,125 , female —- 1,09,12,012 and third gender are 1230. There are a total of 27,513 polling booths in this phase.
The prominent candidates in this phase are SP candidate Dimple Yadav, wife of SP president Akhilesh Yadav, from Kannauj, Congress candidate Salman Khurshid from Farrukhabad and former Union minister Sriprakash Jaiswal from Kanpur.