In Barabanki, Chairman of National Commission for Scheduled Castes P L Punia is banking on the development works done by him in the area.
Union Minister of State for Human Resource Jitin Prasada is facing contest from former MP Dawood Ahmad of BSP in Dhaurahra seat.
This phase is specially important for Congress as out of 22 seats won by the party in 2009 Lok Sabha polls, six were from this phase. SP has 4, BSP has three and BJP has only one seat.
Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha said that total of 233 candidates are in fray in the fourth phase, whose fate will be decided by 2.4 crore votes. This includes 1.3 crore men and 1.09 crore women.
Seats for which polling would be held include Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Mishrikh, Unnao, Mohanlalganj, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Kanpur, Jalaun, Jhansi, Hamirpur, Banda, Fatehpur and Barabanki.
