UP Elections 2022: Cong' Amroha candidate joins SP, alleges 'communication gap' in party
Amroha (Uttar Pradesh), February 12: In a major blow to Congress in Uttar Pradesh, the party's candidate from the Amroha assembly seat Salim Khan joined the Samajwadi Party (SP) on Friday, ahead of the second phase of elections in the state.
Khan alleged a "communication gap" in the grand old party.
"I have joined SP as there's communication gap in Congress, created by 2nd-line leadership which doesn't want ground-level workers to meet national leadership. I wanted to meet Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, but 2nd line leadership didn't let me," the ex-Congress leader stated.
On February 10, Uttar Pradesh's seven-phase Assembly elections began.
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The second phase of voting for the state assembly is set for February 14. In the second phase, 55 assembly constituencies will go to the polls, covering over nine districts, Saharanpur, Bijnor, Amroha, Sambhal, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Budaun, and Shahjahanpur.
In the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh elections 2022, voting for 58 assembly seats covering 11 districts took place on February 10.
The districts in Uttar Pradesh where the elections 2022 took place are Shamli, Hapur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura and Agra. There are a total of 403 seats in the state.
The 403-member UP Assembly is slated to go to the polls in seven phases on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7, with the counting of votes on March 10.
In the 2017 assembly elections in UP, the BJP had won a landslide victory, winning 312 seats and secured a 39.67 percent vote share in the polls for the assembly. Samajwadi Party (SP) bagged 47 seats, while BSP won 19. Congress managed to win only seven seats.
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