Navdeep Rinwa, chief electoral officer of UP, said there were allegations that the district administration was not allowing people to cast their votes in some areas, but poll panel officials checked the polling booth through the pre-installed CCTV cameras and found voting was going on smoothly
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In the 2019 general elections, the BJP clinched three of the eight seats: Pilibhit, Kairana, and Muzaffarnagar. The Samajwadi Party emerged victorious in Moradabad and Rampur, while the Bahujan Samaj Party secured Saharanpur, Bijnor, and Nagina
All three main parties face challenges in this region owing to the sizable presence of Muslims, Scheduled Castes (SCs) and other backward classes (OBCs) across the eight Lok Sabha seats – Saharanpur, Kairana, Muzaffarnagar, Bijnor, Nagina (SC), Moradabad, Rampur and Pilibhit – which will go to the polls in the first phase on April 19.