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The aggressive campaign for the seventh and final phase of the much talked about Uttar Pradesh assembly has ended on March 5. It 54 seats up for grabs. Among the high profile constituency that will vote on March 7 will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi.
The campaigning in the last phase reached its crescendo with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the BJP’s poll blitzkrieg in Varanasi and its adjoining districts.
Besides addressing election rallies, he also held a roadshow for three assembly constituencies of Cantt, Varanasi North and Varanasi South.
This phase also saw Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee descending on the pilgrim city to hold a joint rally with SP president Akhilesh Yadav and his RLD ally Jayant Chaudhary.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra had been camping in Varanasi for about four days and she along with her brother Rahul Gandhi addressed election meetings, whereas BSP supremo Mayawati also campaigned in the district and neighbouring areas.
March 7 voting ends the assembly polls voting in all the states that wen to the polls which includes – Goa, Punjab, Manipur , Uttarakhand.
We will form the govt again in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur and will have good performance in Punjab, Union Home Minister Amit Shah was quoted as saying by ANI
The BJP however faced a major embarrassment when Mayank Joshi , son of party MP and a cabinet minister in Yogi government Rita Bahuguna Joshi joined the samajwadi party .
