LUCKNOW : The third phase of Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh passed off peacefully on Wednesday. Around 51 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the 57 Assembly constituencies in the ten districts of Bareilly, Moradabad and Kanpur divisions.

The polling percentage in the 57 constituencies in 2002 was 59. Chief Minister Mulayam Singh from Gunnaur and Urban Development and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Mohd. Azam Khan from Rampur were among the candidates in this round.

A piquant situation arose in polling station number 153 in Kaimganj Assembly constituency in Farrukhabad district when Congress candidate Louis Khurshid and her husband, Uttar Pradesh Congress president Salman Khurshid, found their names missing in the voters' list. Ms. Khurshid is the sitting MLA from Kaimganj. Mr. Khurshid demanded that the election in the constituency be countermanded.

Chief Electoral Officer Anuj Kumar Bishnoi said their names figured in the final voters' list published on January 15, 2007 but were not in the list with the Presiding Officer.

Mr. Bishnoi said the Special Observer of the Commission and Deputy Election Commissioner J.P. Prakash visited the polling centre and the matter was being investigated.

The Commission received around 20 complaints from different places.

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