About 15 per cent of voters have exercised their franchise during the initial hours of polling for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections while there has been no report of any untoward incident from anywhere.
According to the election officials, the first three hours of polling has witnessed about 15 per cent of polling.
Sixty-two constituencies spread across 13 districts are going to polls today which would decide the fate of 839 contestants including Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav.
Yadav cast his vote at Saifai, his ancestral village, as also his brother and state PWD Minister Shivpal Singh Yadav and Akhilesh Yadav MP, the son of the chief minister.
There are over 1.61 crore voters for Saturday's polling.
The maximum number of candidates of 28 were in the fray at Agra Cant seat while there were only four contestants at Mauranipur assembly seat in Jhansi district.
Over 18,000 Electronic Voting Machines are being used in the Saturday's polling.
Elaborate security arrangements had been put in place to ensure free and fair polls with central para military forces being deployed at every polling centre.
Prominent among those whose fate would be decided is Yadav's brother and PWD minister Shivpal Singh Yadav who is trying his luck from Jaswantnagar.
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