Amid voting for the first phase of polling on 58 assembly seats in the western UP region, prime minister Narendra Modi on Thursday raked up the 2013 Muzaffarnagar communal riots and alleged ban on 'Kanwar Yatras' during the Samajwadi Party (SP) regime and said that during the tenure of the BJP government in the state no incident of communal violence had taken place.
The districts where the elections will be held are Shamli, Hapur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura and Agra. The political parties have already announced their key promises and each party has promised freebies.
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