Campaign for Nov 7 UP bypoll concludes
Lucknow | Thursday, Nov 5 2009 IST
 

Electioneering for the November 7 by-election at one Lok Sabha and 11 Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh ended this evening.

All the major political parties naming Congress, Samajwadi Party, Bharatiya Janata Party and Bahujan Samaj Party had pressed their senior leaders in the campaigning.

On the last day today, Union Minister of state for coal Sri Prakash Jaiswal and Cabinet Minister for food processing Subodh Kant Sahai held election meets in favour of Lucknow-West candidate for Congress, Shyam Kishore Shukla.

The by-elections is seen as a countdown for the coming 2012 Assembly elections in the state with all the political parties trying to gain political grounds.

A 'star war' like situation was being witnessed at Ferozabad Lok Sabha seat, where horde of Bollywood stars campaigned for Congress and SP. Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi and cinestars Salman Khan, Govinda and Celina Jaitely sought support for Congress candidate and cinestar Raj Babbar, while Sanjay Dutt and Kalyan Singh campaigned in favour of SP candidate Dimple Yadav, the daughter-in-law of party president Mulayam Singh Yadav.

Several senior political leaders and Chief Ministers of other states had campaigned for their party candidates.

The campaigning picked-up after the Diwali festival and all parties gave a thrust to reach every nook and corner of the constituency to meet the voters.

The main issue for all parties was development, but still the candidates were basking upon the caste factor.

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