New Delhi: Just days before the sixth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh, an IBN7 inquiry reveals that as many as 14,000 voters have forged their addresses or names. Not just that, in one instance, over 600 voters have been registered on one Noida address.
Nearly 4000 voters in Uttar Pradesh are without any address. When questioned, the Noida administration claimed this was a typing error.
The fifth round of polling in Uttar Pradesh's seven-phased assembly elections in 49 constituencies on Thursday witnessed a 59.4 per cent turnout, an official said. Even as the polling remained low in Kanpur, the state's largest city, voters turned out in far larger numbers in smaller towns and rural areas.
"Today's turnout was an impressive 59.4 per cent. In fact, it would have gone even higher if more voters had stepped out of their homes in Kanpur, where the polling was 52 per cent," state chief electoral officer Umesh Sinha said.
"The highest polling was recorded in Lalitpur (the remotest UP district, surrounded by Madhya Pradesh on three sides)," Sinha said.
As many as 829 candidates were in the fray for the 49 seats spread across 13 districts, with an electorate of 1.56 crore and where 17,267 polling centres were set up.
With additional information from IANS
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