Voting for 1st phase of UP Assembly elections 2017 begins
Voting for first of its seven phases began today in Uttar Pradesh as 73 of its 403 assembly seats went to polls. Around 6,000 paramilitary personnel are being deployed in all the 887 polling centres in Muzaffarnagar and neighbouring Shamli, the areas which had witnessed communal riots in 2013. The second phase of polling will be held on February 15.