Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav condemned the alleged attack on pMaurya and said that they will counter this by reducing the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to "zero" in the next phase of the assembly polls.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was speaking ahead of the 6th phase of the state assembly election 2022 on March 3. In the upcoming phase, polling will also take place in Gorakhpur. CM Yogi is contesting from Gorakhpur's Sadar seat for the first time in the assembly election.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath in an exclusive interview answered a volley of questions by India TV Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Rajat Sharma.

"The BJP is hatching a conspiracy to end reservation, and hence it is selling government organisations to the private sector," SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said.

The political campaign in Maharajganj came ahead of polling in Uttar Pradesh for the sixth phase. Polling in Maharajganj will take place in the sixth phase on March 3.

Adityanath, who was a five-time MP from Gorakhpur, is the mahant of the Gorakhnath Math.

"Aaditya Thackeray had been to UP. I think there is going to be a change in UP. People have made up their minds. In the atmosphere we saw, there is a neck-to-neck fight. The support for Akhilesh Yadav shows the change," said Raut.

Addressing an election meeting in Payagpur Vidhan Sabha constituency for party candidate Mukesh Srivastava, Akhilesh Yadav said the BJP government made diesel and petrol so costly that poor people are unable to drive their vehicles.

The poll panel's voter turnout app till 9.30 pm showed 59.77 per cent voting. The State Election Commission releases the final voting percentage a day after the polling.

PM Modi said that dynasts want the poor to be always at their feet but the BJP cares for the poor. This is why, he said, the poor people are supporting the BJP in all phases.

UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the Samajwadi Party govt used to supply even power to an area on the basis of the religion of people living there, but the BJP government works on the principle of inclusive growth.

Pilibhit, Lakhimpur-Kheri, Sitapur, Lucknow, Hardoi, Unnao, Rae Bareli, Fatehpur and Banda districts will go to polls in the fourth phase today. A total of 624 candidates are in the fray for 59 Assembly seats.

In the photo, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is seen with Abu Azmi and SP leader Shadab Ahmed, whose son Mohammad Saif is a convict in the Ahmedabad blast case.

Akhilesh Yadav, accompanied by his wife Dimple Yadav, had on Sunday interacted with reporters outside the polling booth number 239 in Safai after exercising his franchise, thus violating the poll code.

Adityanath alleged that the Samajwadi Party wants to weaken the fight against terrorism, adding that it batted for the release of people involved in acts of terror.

Yadav probably doesn't know that I have been monitoring the functioning of government schemes through an e-dashboard installed in my office as well as residence, the chief minister said.

Responding to Akhilesh Yadav's 'Baba Bulldozer' remark directed to Yogi Adityanath, Chouhan expanded the abbreviation of BABA as - Brave, Active, Brilliant, and Attentive.

Akhilesh Yadav is fighting his first assembly elections from the Karhal seat. Akhilesh Yadav along with his wife Dimple Yadav cast their votes at polling in Jaswantnagar.

The party further complained about the "defective" VVPAT at 228 Vidhan Sabha of Hamirpur District, Booth Number 432 and asked the EC to take the matter into account.

"A person who has a family understands the pain of the family. The BJP leaders do not have any family, will they be able to feel the pain of families? Only a family person can understand his responsibility", said Akhilesh Yadav said at an election meeting in Uttar Pradesh.