A total of 613 candidates are in the fray for the 54 seats, including those falling in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary segment Varanasi.
Among the 676 candidates in the fray this time are Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur. He is contesting his first assembly polls.
This phase is crucial for the BJP which faces the challenge of retaining its 51 seats. The party is facing resistance in the Terai region where BJP MP Varun Gandhi has been speaking up on issues against his own party.
The Ministry has decided to deploy around over 80,000 of the security personnel for poll duty in various sensitive areas during the fourth phase on February 23, fifth on February 27, sixth on March 3 and the last phase on March 7.
Polling for the 117-member Punjab Assembly was held in a single-phase on Sunday.
The third phase of elections is seemingly the most interesting phase of the seven-phase polls.
The incident took place when women and girls were standing by the railing around the well and the iron mesh gave way.
Uttarakhand is holding single phase polling for all its 70 Assembly seats, with a total of 82,66,644 voters deciding the fate of 632 candidates.
The EC has put out a disclaimer that the data made available is approximate as data from some polling stations takes time to reach.
He said that the double engine government gave free houses while earlier government were totally indifferent. Even though the Centre was sending money, they were not ready to make the houses for the poor.
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president and Hyderabad MP said he had left Delhi in the morning for election-related programmes in Meerut and Kithore, where he held a foot march at 3.30 pm.
The police said that a group of 15 people were at the site where the accident took place.
The dogs had earlier attacked people in the neighbouring Kanata, Deeppur, Rampur and Bhabha villages.
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