Polling began on Monday on 54 seats for the seventh and last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. As many as 2.06 crore eligible voters will seal the fate of 613 candidates who are in the fray including some ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government.

54 constituencies going to polls today spread across nine districts of Mau, Azamgarh, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Varanasi, Chandauli, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, andBhadohi (Sant Ravidas Nagar). Among the keenly watched contests will be in Varanasi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's parliamentary constituency and SP's stronghold Azamgarh which elected Akhilesh Yadav to Lok Sabha in 2019.