Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls | Campaigning for second phase ends; voting on February 14
The HinduThe high-decibel campaigning for 55 Uttar Pradesh Assembly seats which are going to the polls in the second of the seven-phase election on February 14 came to an end on Saturday evening as senior leaders made a last-minute campaign for their party candidates. The prominent faces in the fray in this phase include senior Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan, Dharam Singh Saini, a Yogi Adityanath government minister who switched to SP after the polls were declared, and Uttar Pradesh Finance Minister Suresh Khanna. Campaigning for the BJP, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had attacked the main opposition Samajwadi Party while elaborating on why his party’s government was necessary in the state to keep it riot-free. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav-leading his party’s took a swipe at the state government that “Azam Khan is in jail for building university, son of a Union minister is out of jail” in the case of running over farmers.