Karnataka SSLC results 2019 have been published on the official website, karresults.nic.in.

Karnataka SSLC result has been released on the official website, karresults.nic.in.
Karnataka Secondary Education Examination Board or KSEEB has announced the SSLC results for the examinations held from March 21 to April 4. A total of 825468 students have cleared the exam this year. The overall pass percentage stands at 73.7%. TheKarnataka SSLC results have been announced for 8.41 lakh students who had appeared for the exams in last two months across the state. The Karnataka SSLC results have been published on the official website, karresults.nic.in. The evaluation of answer sheets started on April second week and more than 70 thousand officials participated in the process. The SSLC results 2019 can be accessed after entering the registration details of the candidates on the official website.

The PUC second year results (equivalent to Class 12) were announced recently.

Mumbai: Actors Vivek Oberoi and Suresh Oberoi after casting their vote at a polling booth at Gandhigram school in Juhu.

Total voter turnout till 5pm

Bihar – 45.18%
Jammu and Kashmir – 9.37%
Madhya Pradesh – 57.96%
Maharashtra – 43.19%
Odisha – 54.41%
Rajasthan – 54.75%
Uttar Pradesh – 46.19%
West Bengal – 66.46%
Jharkhand – 57.13%

West Bengal braves violent marred polls

A Union Minister was attacked, Central forces fired in the air after Trinamool Congress backed villagers vandalised a booth, while there were reports of clashes, intimidation and booth capturing as violence overshadowed all other developments in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal on Monday.

Clashes erupted between Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers and security forces at polling booths in Asansol, West Bengal on Monday during the fourth phase of polling in the area.

BJP MP candidate from Asansol, Babul Supriyo’s car was also vandalised outside the polling station.

Voters at a polling booth in Asansol had refused to vote in the absence of security forces, media reports said.

During the second phase of polling, violence had occurred in Raiganj Parliamentary constituency with BJP candidate Debasree Chaudhuri alleging that TMC workers tried to capture a polling booth in the constituency. The third phase was also not devoid of unrest.  

Mumbai: Shah Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan leave after casting their votes at a polling booth in Bandra. 

Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar was spotted along with his family after he casted vote in Mumbai on Monday. 

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Polls in Mumbai, Maharashtra

Long queues were seen in some areas of Mumbai like Powai and Chanidwali as voting was being recorded slowly.

4th phase polls in Rajasthan

RajasthanRajasthan Monday recorded about 54 per cent voter turn out till 4 pm from among its 2.57 crore electorates in the ongoing polling for 13 Lok Sabha seats in the state, said officials.

Barmer, the state’s largest parliamentary constituency area-wise, witnessed the highest turnout at 60.36 per cent till 3 pm. 

The second highest voter turnout after Barmer was reported from tribal population-dominated seat Banswara, where 57.63 per cent electors cast their votes till 3 pm.

Agencies

Congress candidate for Lok Sabha’s Patna Sahib constituency Shatrughan Sinha on Monday filed his nomination. 

Earlier in the month, Sinha faced a backlash from Congress’ Lucknow candidate for campaigning for his wife Poonam Sinha. Shatrughan responded saying that it is his duty “as the head of the family and a husband to support my family.” 

While Shatrughan Sinha is set to take on Bharatiya Janata Party’s Ravi Shankar Prasad from Patna Sahib constituency this Lok Sabha polls, his wife Poonam Sinha – who has been fielded on an SP ticket – will face BJP leader and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh and Congress’ Pramod Krishnam from Lucknow. 

Patna Sahib in Bihar will go to polls in the seventh phase of the Lok Sabha elections on May 19. Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh will conduct general elections for the constituency in the fifth phase on May 6. 

Mumbai, Apr 29 : Bollywood celebrities, from Urmila Matondkar, Priyanka Chopra Jonas, Salman Khan, Aamir Khan to Prasoon Joshi and Anupam Kher on Monday voted in the fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections in Mumbai and urged others to step out and make their vote count.

Actor Kareena Kapoor with son Taimur cast her vote at Durello Convent High School in Bandra, while BJP sitting MP Paresh Rawal and his wife Swaroop Sampat cast their vote at polling booth number 250-256 at Jamna Bai School in Vile Parle.

BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Mathura, Hema Malini, and her daughters, Esha Deol and Ahana Deol, cast their vote in Vile Parle.

Actor Kangana Ranaut cast her vote at a polling booth in Khar while veteran actor Rekha cast her vote at polling booth number 283 in Bandra.

Urmila Matondkar the Congress MP candidate from Mumbai North seat, voted in polling booth number 190 in Bandra.

Sharing a picture on the micro-blogging site Twitter, Urmila said, “Nothing feels better than making a contribution towards your country and carrying out your civic duty of Casting a Vote. Do your duty.”

“Thank you so much “People of North Mumbai” for being good citizens and voting in big numbers,” she said in another tweet.

Filmmaker Prakash Jha, went to vote with his daughter and said,”Just voted! With my daughter @dishajha !! Both, respectfully, for our different preferences! But we voted for the peace, prosperity and pride of our beloved India. And most of all, the dignity of each of our brothers and sisters of this great nation.”

Taking to twitter after casting his vore, Prasoon Joshi said, “Ungli par nishaan hai, Dil me Hindustan hai!good to see many first time voters n great to be part of the festival of democracy. All do Vote! #VoteKarMumbai #LokSabhaElections2019”.

In a tweet, Anupam Kher said, “I exercised my democratic right. Did you? Please vote.”

Displaying hi inked finger on his Twitter handle, Salman Khan said, “I have voted…. have u? #VoteKarMumbai”.

Priyanka Chopra said, “This is the moment that matters…. Every vote is a voice that counts. #LokSabhaElections2019”.

Ranveer singh, Madhuri Dixit Nene , Varun Dhawan , Arjun Kapoor, Dia Mirza and Arjun Rampal also urged people to go out and vote.

Ranveer singh said, “VOTE”.

Madhuri Dixit Nene said, “Voting is our right, let’s use it wisely! The future of our country is in our hands. Let’s do our duty and #VoteForIndia”.

Varun Dhawan said, “BE COOL GO VOTE #jaihind”.

Arjun Kapoor said, “Don’t be a fool, go vote & be cool… every vote counts… #mumbaikarvotekar #bepartofthechange”.

Arjun Rampal said, “Done. Cast my Vote. Did my duty. Feels great. Go Vote Mumbai. #VoteKarIndia #VoteKarMumbai #JaiHind”.

Shankar Mahadevan said, “We have voted !!! Have you? #VoteKarMumbai”.

Dia Mirza said, “VOTE!!! Because it’s the most empowering thing you can do as a citizen. It our fundamental right and responsibility

JaiHind #VoteIndia #LokSabha2019″.

Actors Kajol, Ajay Devgn and celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor also cast their vote.

Sonali Bendre Behl said, “Go Vote… it’s the most important thing to do today.

NoExcuses #LokSabhaElection2019 #IndiaVotes #VoteKarMumbai”.

Kapil Sharma said, “maine kar diya apne kiya? Agar nahin to abhi jao aur vote karo #VoteKarMumbai #VoteKarIndia #VoteBecauseYouCan”.

Raghu Ram said, “For 5 years, all the parties talked, and we listened. Today, we’ll talk. And they’ll listen! #VoteKarMumbai #VoteHard”.

Rahul Bose said, “Have you? Returned from shooting in Hyderabad to do this. Catching a flight out in two hours. #DanceOfDemocracy #MayTheBestIdeasWin”.

Aftab Shivdasani said, “YOUR RIGHT, YOUR CHOICE. Choose wisely. #VoteKarMumbai #voted”.

Late on Friday, the Karnataka Police reportedly received an input about major terror attacks planned in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Puducherry, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

In the wake of the deadly serial blasts in Sri Lanka that killed over 253 people on Easter Sunday, Bengaluru and Mysuru in southern Karnataka and Kerala have been put on high alert following inputs of major terror attacks in eight states.

“We have deployed additional forces in all sensitive areas, religious places, markets, malls, shopping plazas, multiplexes, airport, railway station, inter-state bus terminal and public places to prevent untoward incidents,” Bengaluru Police Commissioner T Suneel Kumar told IANS.

Though the city was already on alert with extra vigil and more security for the April 18 Lok Sabha election in the state’s central and southern regions, the city and state police are not taking chances.

Hotels, pubs, restaurants, marriage halls, multi-complexes and supermarkets have been directed to step up the security with CCTV cameras, metal detectors and fire alarm.

Bengaluru has been on general alert for years as India’s tech hub with the presence of over 500 global IT firms, aerospace industries, Indian space agency ISRO, defence labs, Indian Institute of Science and state-run research and development institutes.

The city police held meetings with all stakeholders on Thursday to assess their preparedness for dealing with any unforeseen incident or attack.

“As a cosmopolitan city, Bengaluru attracts lots of people from all over the state and country for direct and indirect jobs, higher education, healthcare, services, manufacturing and tourism,” Kumar said.

The police also beefed up security and patrolling in Mysuru, about 150 km from Bengaluru, as thousands of tourists from across India and abroad visit the city as tourists.

Meanwhile, late on Friday, the Karnataka Police reportedly received an input about major terror attacks planned in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Goa, Puducherry, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.

According to the police, a phone call was made by a lorry driver “claiming to have information of alleged terror attacks on the aforesaid states”. He claimed that the attacks will take place on trains. The input also claimed that there were 19 terrorists present at Ramanathapuram in Tamil Nadu.

However, the input was termed as hoax threat by the Karnataka police officials who said they have arrested a 65-year-old lorry driver identified as Sundara Murthy, who is also a retired Army personnel, for making the call.

Following the input, Kerala Police upped the ante against possible extremist activity in the state.

Senior officers of the National Investigation Agency had visited several places in Kerala as part of their sweeping probe against Zahran Hashim, the head of relatively unknown National Thowheeth Jamaath, an affiliate of the ISIS, as part of its investigation into his links in India.

Hashim was confirmed to have been killed in the attack on a Colombo hotel on Easter Sunday.

The blasts targeted St Anthony’s Church in Colombo, St Sebastian’s Church in the western coastal town of Negombo and Zion Church in the eastern town of Batticaloa around 8.45 am (local time) as the Easter Sunday mass were in progress.

Explosions were also reported from three five-star hotels — the Shangri-La, the Cinnamon Grand and the Kingsbury in Colombo.

Agencies

Soon after joining the Congress, Shatrughan Sinha had ruffled many feathers within the party when he recently campaigned for his wife Poonam who is contesting from Lucknow on a Samajwadi Party ticket,

[nasheman news]
CHHINDWARA, MADHYA PRADESH: 

Actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who recently switched sides from the BJP to the Congress, while praising his new partyon Friday, invoked Pakistan founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah along with Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Jawaharlal Nehru.

“The Congress family, from Mahatma Gandhi to Sardar Patel to Mohammad Ali Jinnah to Jawaharlal Nehru to Indira Gandhi to Rajiv Gandhi to Rahul Gandhi to Netaji Subhash Chnadra Bose. It is their party. They had the most important role in development and freedom of the country. This is the reason why I have come here (in Congress),” Mr Sinha said in Hindi at a rally in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara.

Shatrughan Sinha, 72, was in Madhya Pradesh to campaign for Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath, who is contesting the national election from the Chhindwara parliamentary constituency.

Shatrughan Sinha, Congress in Chhindwara, MP: Congress family from Mahatma Gandhi to Sardar Patel to Mohd Ali Jinnah to Jawaharlal Nehru…it’s their party, they had the most important role in development & freedom of the country. This is the reason I’ve come here.

Soon after joining the Congress, Mr Sinha had ruffled many feathers within the party when he recently campaigned for his wife Poonam who is contesting from Lucknow on a Samajwadi Party ticket, though the Congress has also fielded its candidate from there.

His recent praise for Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati and Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav, calling them “Prime Minister material”, too drew censure from a section of Congress leaders who found it objectionable after the gathbandhan or the grand alliance left the Congress out of the equation.

Mr Sinha, while in the BJP, was openly critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah.

His tweet-a-day barbs were increasingly provocative for the party. In January, he even joined opposition leaders in a mega rally in Kolkata hosted by Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

In an association that had been souring for years, the proverbial last straw was the BJP snubbing him and naming a different candidate, Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, for his Patna Sahib constituency in Bihar where he has been the lawmaker for a decade.

Shatrughan Sinha will take on Mr Prasad as the Congress candidate from Patna Sahib.

Sri Lanka Blasts: Though Bengaluru was already on alert with extra vigil and more security for the April 18 Lok Sabha election in the state’s central and southern regions, the city and state police are not taking chances.

[Nasheman news]
BENGALURU: 

Bengaluru and Mysuru in southern Karnataka are on high alert with security tightened in the aftermath of the serial blasts in Sri Lanka on April 21, a top police official said on Friday.

“We have deployed additional forces in all sensitive areas, religious places, markets, malls, shopping plazas, multiplexes, airport, railway station, inter-state bus terminal and public places to prevent untoward incidents,” Bengaluru Police Commissioner T Suneel Kumar told IANS.

Though the city was already on alert with extra vigil and more security for the April 18 Lok Sabha election in the state’s central and southern regions, the city and state police are not taking chances.

A series of terror blasts struck churches and luxury hotels in Colombo, killing over 250 people.

“We have also directed hotels, pubs, restaurants, marriage halls, multi-complexes and supermarkets to step up their own security in and around their places with CCTV cameras, metal detectors and fire alarm,” said Mr Kumar.

Bengaluru has been on general alert for years as India’s tech hub with the presence of over 500 global IT firms, aerospace industries, Indian space agency ISRO, defence labs, Indian Institute of Science and state-run research and development institutes.

“We regularly receive alerts from the Union Home Ministry and intelligence agencies on possible terror attacks, as untoward incidents in Bengaluru draw global attention in view its reputation and prominence as the country’s technology capital, aerospace hub and space city,” said Mr Kumar.

As it is not possible for the police and state security agencies to look after everyone or every place in view of the city’s size and its population (over 1 crore), Mr Kumar said citizens were equally responsible and have to work with the government to thwart any terror incident.

“We have asked all hotels, pubs, restaurants, theatres, churches, temples, mosques, malls, cinema theatres and multiplexes to install surveillance cameras, metal detectors, baggage scanners and check points for frisking the people to minimise the risk of any attack,” said Mr Kumar.

The city police held meetings with all stakeholders on Thursday to assess their preparedness for dealing with any unforeseen incident or attack.

“As a cosmopolitan city, Bengaluru attracts lots of people from all over the state and country for direct and indirect jobs, higher education, healthcare, services, manufacturing and tourism.” said Mr Kumar.

The city police also detained several anti-social elements and mischief makers ahead of the assembly election to maintain law and order.

A suspected terror attack in December 2005 at the renowned Indian Institute of Science (IISc) claimed the life of professor and two persons were injured when an improvised device exploded at the cricket stadium in April 2010.C

The police also beefed up security and patrolling in Mysuru, about 150 km from Bengaluru, as thousands of tourists from across India and abroad visit the city as tourists.

Airline services have now resumed, but several flights are expected to be delayed

By Press Trust of India | Updated: 27 April 2019 12:13 ISTShare on FacebookTweetShareEmailRedditComment

[Nasheman news] Air India uses server software developed by Atlanta-based SITA company HIGHLIGHTS

• Due to the malfunction, boarding passes could not be issued
• The maintenance of SITA systems caused technical glitches
• Adding to the inconvenience, check-ins were also halted

Hundreds of Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world as its check-in software stopped functioning for around six hours, the airline said Saturday. According to airline sources, the software, which is of Atlanta-based SITA company, was not functioning approximately from 3 am to 9 am Saturday. Consequently, boarding passes could not be issued at major airports across the world and various flights were delayed.

“The system has been restored. It has begun functioning. We regret the inconvenience that passengers had to face,” said the national carrier’s chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani.

Lohani said that Air India uses a passenger services system, which looks after check-in, baggage and reservation, of the SITA company and “it was taken for maintenance today morning” by them. “After that, there were some technical glitches, because of which, the system was not functional.

There were some major problems at big airports such as Delhi,” he added. SITA regretted the inconvenience caused said it had experienced a complex system issue during server maintenance early morning which resulted in operational disruption to flights.

“We have now fully restored services at all airports where Air India were affected. Our priority remains, as always, to ensure a stable system where customers can conduct business efficiently and effectively, and we are undertaking a full investigation to understand the root cause and prevent a recurrence,” it said in a statement to PTI.

Many passengers vented their ire on social media as the airline could not issue them the boarding passes on Saturday morning. A Dr Sonal Saxena tweeted at 7.20 am, “Utter chaos. Air India systems not working at Delhi since 3 am. All flights grounded and delayed. No check-ins and boarding.”

The airline’s spokesperson had said at around 8 am, “SITA server is down. Due to which flight operation is affected. Our technical teams are on work and soon system may be recovered.”

A similar incident took place on June 23 last year when a technical glitch in the airline’s check-in software delayed 25 of its flights across India. The airline had tweeted on June 23, “Due to unexpexted network connectivity issues at SITA #Atlanta #Datacenter , which had a #worldwide impact, 25 flights were delayed from 1210 hrs to 1510 hrs on #Airindia network. Operations are normal now (sic).”

Post Srilanka attack,High Alert Sounded in Bengaluru

Highlights. 
* Deadly terror attack in Srilanka on April 21st 2019,More than 350 killed in this terror attack. 
* Ten Indians were killed in the deadly terror attack.
* Install surveillance cameras and hold security checks in accordance with the Karnataka Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2017, and urged the stakeholders to maintain vigil.
* Apart from surveillance cameras, the management should also deploy baggage scanners and other security checks. 
* As the police cannot be present everywhere, people should be the eyes and ears of the force to help maintain law and order.
* The management of private institutions should seek the help of jurisdictional police for deployment of adequate security measures, and they should inform the police about any suspicious activities.He underscored the importance of hotels and lodges to record details of guests with copies of government-approved ID cards.
* Door frames and hand-held metal detectors with frisking of every individual should be put in place at strategic locations.

In light of the deadly terror attacks in Sri Lanka earlier this week, Bengaluru City Police Commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,with Additional Commissioners,as,Alok Kumar,Seemanth Kumar Singh,BK Singh,DCPs as,Rahul.S,N.Shashi kumar, K.Annamalai,Ravi.D.Channanavar,MN Anucheth,Smt.Kala Krishnaswamy,Smt.Isha Pant,Vartika Katiyar,Devaraj,Girish.S,Abdul Ahad,S.Siddaraju,Smt.Sarah Fathima,with other DCPs and all ACPs,PIs,were present and they held a meeting at Commissioners office on Thursday with in-charges of religious institutions, shopping malls, and star hotels instructing them to escalate security measures.
The terror attacks on Easter Sunday in Colombo killed more than 350 innocent people including six children. Among the dead were 10 Indians including seven JD(S) functionaries from Tumakuru in Karnataka.  
In the meeting, all institutions which see a daily footfall of more than 500 people have been instructed to install CCTV cameras and increase security measures, including frisking of visitors.
In addition, the police have decided to set up ananti-terrorist cell in the city and have written to Karnataka government in this regard.
As part of the measures, the police convened a meeting with head of variousinstitutions, religious places and commercial establishment with a footfall of more than 500.
Key spots under high alert in Karnataka include the capital city, Bangalore airport, Mysore Palace, Chamundi Hills, KRS Dam, Brindavan Gardens and others. Karnataka State Industrial Security Force has been deployed to provide security to KRS Dam site along with the state police force.
All hotels, resorts and shopping malls in Bangalore have been strictly asked to install and mandatorily use hand-held and door frame metal detectors. 
Anything or any activity found suspicious in and around the city should be informed to the nearest police station.
Photo ID cards should be verified mandatorily before completing check-ins to hotels and lodges.
Mainly at Majestic Bus stand there should be frisking of each and every individual as from past so many months the metal detector installed is not working at all so many people said that the proper security arrangements should be done in Bus stand,Railway Station,Airport,temples,and other places also they should be vigil in escalating the security measures. 
Install surveillance cameras and hold security checks in accordance with the Karnataka Public Safety (Measures) Enforcement Act, 2017, and urged the stakeholders to maintain vigil.
Apart from surveillance cameras, the management should also deploy baggage scanners and other security checks.As the police cannot be present everywhere, people should be the eyes and ears of the force to help maintain law and order.
The management of private institutions should seek the help of jurisdictional police for deployment of adequate security measures, and they should inform the police about any suspicious activities. He underscored the importance of hotels and lodges to record details of guests with copies of government-approved ID cards.
Door frames and hand-held metal detectors should be put in place at strategic locations.
Many Netizens said we are safe when Bengaluru city police is with us. 
KIA sends a advisory message to passengers :

Passenger Advisory: The high-security alert at the #BLRAirport might mean some additional wait time, queues and delays. We are working hard to ensure your safety. Do plan your travel accordingly. Apologies for the inconvenience caused.
Bengaluru police commissioner,T.Suneel Kumar,with Addl CPs,as,Alok Kumar,Seemanth Kumar Singh,BK Singh with all DCPs were present at the conference after the meeting with all the religious people and their Incharge and with all the stake holders,addressing the press conference Suneel Kumar said,In the back drop of the incidents that have taken place on 21st April 2019 at Srilanka.We have had an immediate meeting of the Deputy Commissioners of the Bengaluru Zones and they have been already instructed earlier to immediately gather information about the religious places where there will be lot of congregation and also Malls and Hotels and they have been asked to immediately instruct and seek  cooperation from them.

Even after that the Bengaluru city police as commissioner we felt that we will have a direct direct dialogue with the people who matters in this institutions.The religious places that includes all types of religions,Muslims,Christians,Hindus where there will be lot of foot falls we wanted to talk to their management,talk to the trustees,talk to the board members.

Similarly the experience that revealed out in Srilanka that the people were moving casually with baggages without any checks all this things and in some hotels also explosions have taken place we wanted to alert our hotel friends also to escalate the security measures like baggage scanners,physical checking and frisking of each and every individuals and to also to find out is address proper address with their proper identity to be taken as it is more important as far as the hotels and places were He/She is going to stay and similarly the places were people are also take houses on rent the establishment of their identity is more important. In that reason also in that connection also we have called the people from various institutions and we have elaborated the security measures that they can be taken and also to sort their cooperation in maintaining vigil.

In these places this is the most important idea of calling this meeting they have Co-operated they have come in huge numbers and they have responded to our call.We hope that they are all with us and see that the vigil is continued.It is not a temperoary basis we want it to be a permanent basis that is the reason we have called them and we assured them our cooperation and they have also assured us that they will be with us.When asked is any high alert,Suneel Kumar said,no such type of high alert it is a general awareness and want to create at the highest level that is the reason we have called them directly here.He even said there is no threat call no high alert have been received in Bengaluru it is in general because it is for awareness not only for this incident this awareness will be created constantly and regularly also that is why we have called it in highest level my officers will be taking this exercise at the may be Division level or at the Sub-Division level.When asked sir any feedback you got from the people you met,Suneel Kumar said some of them have suggested certain things like they were talking about the security lapses at the Srilanka,He said I told them we are not the correct forum to discuss it.

Somebody was telling in airport and hotels nobody checked us we were walking freely when they went to bring the one of the dead body they were casual we said the president himself has accepted after the multiple blasts.Somebody was telling that there should be frequent checking of Hard disks and CCTV footages to be done.When asked about the proposal of ATC as Anti Terrorists Cell to be set up in Bengaluru he said the proposal has been sent to government as it will be a separate Anti Terrorists Cell wing and which will be set up at CCB office and we have instructed all the five and seven star hotels where more foreigners stay we have asked them to take their proper identity and their details correctly to be maintained he added.

By : Pramesh S Jain

Lucknow : Campaigning of the crucial fourth phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh in 13 Lok Sabha seats will end on Saturday evening where several political starlets are in the fray to enter the parliament.

Even as political leaders are leaving no stone unturned to reach to voters for their support, but rising heat wave conditions have restricted their visits to each and every pocket of the constituencies.

Polling in the fourth phase will be held on April 29 between 0700 hours to 1800 hours with campaigning ending on Saturday at 1700 hours. A total of 152 candidates are in the fray from the 13 Lok Sabha seats in this phase.

Along with 13 Lok Sabha seats, by-election to Nighasan assembly seat in Kheri will also be held in this phase due to death of a sitting BJP member. There are 7 candidates in the fray in the assembly bypolls.

There are a total of 2,38,88,367 voters in this phase with male voters account to 1,29,75,125 , female– 1,09,12,012 and third gender are 1230. There are a total of 27,513 polling booths in this phase.

The third phase polling in Uttar Pradesh, will decide the fate of SP candidate Dimple Yadav, wife of SP president Akhilesh Yadav from Kannauj, Former Union ministers and Congress candidate Salman Khurshid from Farrukhabad and Sriprakash Jaiswal from Kanpur and senior Congress leader Anu Tandon who is pitted against BJP’s Sakshi Maharaj from Unnao.

The campaigning in this phase of electrifying with BSP and SP holding joint rallies at Kannauj and Kanpur, besides BSP chief Mayawati and SP president Akhilesh Yadav, held seperate rallies in support of their candidates.

For SP, Kannauj was their main attention, where Dimple and Akhilesh held two roadshows to woo the voters.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi addressed meetings in Kheri, Unnao and Kanpur while his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra held road shows in Kanpur, Jhansi and Hamirpur.

The Bharatiya Janata Party led the campaigning in this phase too, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigned while BJP president Amit Shah also held a couple of meetings in the constituencies going to poll in this phase, while UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath criss-crossed the region, addressing several rallies on a daily basis along with other senior leaders. Union Home minister Rajnath Singh too campaigned rigorously in this phase.

The 13 constituencies going to polls in the fourth phase are–Shahjahanpur, Kheri, Hardoi, Mishrik, Unnao, Farrukhabad, Etawah,Kannauj,Kanpur, Akbarpur, Jalaun, Jhansi and Hamirpur . Except for Kannauj, rest 12 seats are currently held by the BJP in this phase.

In most of the constituencies there is a direct fight between the BSP-SP alliance and the BJP, but Congress is in the fight in couple of seats like Kanpur, Unnao, Farrukhabad and Kheri.

The highest number of 15 candidates in the fray are from Kheri, followed by 14 each in Shahjahanpur, Kanpur, Akbarpur and Hamirpur, 13 each in Mishrikh and Etawah, 11 each in Hardoi and Jhansi, 10 in Kannauj, 9 each in Unnao and Farrukhabad and 5 in Jalaun.