Lucknow: The Election Commission has announced the dates of panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh today. There will be four phases of panchayat elections in 75 districts of UP. State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar said that votes will be cast in four phases in the state on April 15, April 19, April 26 and April 29, while counting of votes will take place on May 2. He said that nominations for the first phase will be on April 3 and four, while for the second phase, seven and eight April, for the third phase, April 13 and 15, and for the last phase, on April 17 and 18, nomination will be filed. Polling for all four phases will be held from seven in the morning to six in the evening.
First phase
Ghaziabad, Saharanpur, Rampur, Bareilly, Hathras, Agra, Kanpur Nagar, Jhansi, Mahoba, Prayagraj, Rae Bareli, Hardoi, Ayodhya, Shravasti, Santakbir Nagar, Gorakhpur, Jaunpur, Bhadohi.
Second phase
Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Gautam Budh Nagar, Bijnor, Amroha, Badaun, Etah, Mainpuri, Kannauj, Etawah, Lalitpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Lucknow, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sultanpur, Gonda, Maharajganj, Varanasi and Azamgarh.
Third phase
Shamli, Meerut, Moradabad, Pilibhit, Kasganj, Firozabad, Auraiya, Kanpur Dehat, Jalaun, Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Unnao, Amethi, Barabanki, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Deoria, Chandauli, Mirzapur and Ballia.
Last phase
Polling will be held in Bulandshahar, Hapur, Sambhal, Shahjahanpur, Aligarh, Mathura, Farrukhabad, Banda, Kaushambi, Sitapur, Ambedkaranagar, Bahraich, Basti, Kushinagar, Ghazipur, Sonbhadra and Mau districts.
