63% voters cast votes in panchayat polls in Etawah

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Faiz.Siddiqui@timesgroup.com
Kanpur: Polling for the posts village head, BDC, zila panchayat member and zila panchayat chairman passed off peacefully in the second phase on Monday in Etawah.
Around 63 per cent of voters had cast their votes by 5 pm to elect their representatives.
According to the figures given by the district election office, nearly 9.48 lakh voters cast their votes to elect their representatives for the posts village head, BDC, zila panchayat member and zila panchayat chairman.
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav did not cast his vote in Saifai on the request of his family members because of some health issues.
Tej Pratap Singh Yadav, former Mainpuri MP told TOI that his grandfather (Mulayam Singh Yadav) had never missed voting in any election in Saifai till date. "At present, `netaji' is in Delhi. On our request, he dropped the plan of coming to Saifai and cast his vote owing to the pandemic," Tej further said.
SP MP from Badaun Dharmendra Yadav, along with his father Abhay Ram Yadav, Aditya Yadav, son of Shivpal Yadav and his wife Raj Lakshmi, were the first to cast their votes right after polling began at 7 am.
At around 11 am, Anshul Yadav (present zila panchayat chairman), his wife Sweety Yadav, his mother Prem Lata and Mridula Yadav (present block head) cast their votes.
Talking to reporters, Yadav said that SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who had tested positive for coronavirus, is now quite well and recuperating and soon will visit Saifai. "All SP backed candidates in Etawah, Mainpuri and Kannauj will win their respective elections," he said.