New Delhi: In Uttar Pradesh, the election heat is further adding to the temperatures that has already shot up to 40 degrees.
Campaigning for the 62 seats in the first phase of Assembly Polls ends on Thursday with the Election Commission has deploying 657 companies of central forces in the 13 south-western districts where polling is due on April 7.
Chief minister Mulayam Singh is concentrating on his home turf Bharthana on Thursday, as his fate will be decided in the first phase of polls on Saturday.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi is in Kanpur putting finishing touches to the campaign there.
For the Samajwadi Party, it's crucial as they want to retain all the 24 seats they had won in 2002.
Meanwhile, Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav accused Mulayam of paying attention only to his own constituency “at the cost of other parts of the state”.
"There is no law and order in Uttar Pradesh. There is no safety and security for the people, they are living in constant fear and terror," he alleged, during an election meeting in Etah, alleging Mulayam paid attention only to the development of his constituency, where he has spent crores.
The RJD chief also accused BJP and BSP of spreading communal hatred and caste politics.
(With agency inputs)
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