UP 'The Human Head' to begin on Feb 8

The Election Commission announced on Sunday a change in the election date in UP: instead of beginning on February 4 as previously announced, the polls will start on February 8. The change was made as the date of the first aspect, February 4, was
coinciding with Id-Miladun-Nabi, the Prophet's birth anniversary. According to the inventory announced on December 24, elections in UP were to be held over seven aspects - February 4, 8, 11, 15, 19, 23, 28. With the change in dates, now the February 4 aspect would be held after the February 28 aspects.
The first aspect of poll will now be held on February 8 in the 55
electorates of Shrawasti, Barabanki, Sitapur, Bahraich, Gonda, Balrampur, Siddharthnagar, Faizabad, Sitapur, Bahraich, Ambedkar Nagar, Basti and Ambedkar Nagar districts. What was originally make known as the first aspect of the poll on February 4 in 60 electorates of Rampur, Bhim Nagar Pilibhit, Kheri,  Bareilly, Badaun, Shahjahanpur, Moradabad, Bijnor, Bhim Nagar and Jyotiba Phule Nagar, has been posponed.
EC sources said that elections in these seats will likely be held in March first week.
The EC also posponed the January 10 notification for the meeting electorates which were going to the poll on February 4. The EC has now requested Governor BL Joshi to issue the notification for the February 8
aspect on January 12. With this, the nomination process will also start on the same day.
Several political parties, especially those in Bareilly, home to a large population of Muslim voters, had given a written beginning to EC requesting change in polling dates of the February 4 aspect as it was coinciding with the Prohpet's birth anniversary. The EC decided to delay the polling dates of the first aspect and start polling in UP from February 8, taking into compensation the concerns that many people would be unable to participate in the polling process as a result of the religious celebrations.