Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: As the last phase of UP polls is coming to end there is a direct faceoff between the political parties in the UP election 2017 especially between the Samajwadi Party and the BJP which are moving in equal strength to claim the next government.

Who can win the UP election 2017? Current statistics shows BJP slowly gaining momentum and might be winning.

As heading towards direct faceoff in Uttar Pradesh election 2017 UP will will see a direct face-off between PM Narendra Modi and Rahul-Akhilesh combine in the battle ground Varanasi.

On Saturday 4th March, Prime Minister will be in his home constituency for a good nine hours and SP and Congress will hold a road show in the heart of the city.

There are 40 seats including 8 sheets in Varanasi which will be polling on next Wednesday. Prime Minister Modi is expected  to hold three election meetings in the run up to the polling here. There are three rallies being planned by the BJP in Mirzapur , Jaunpur and Varanasi.

Varanasi is seen as the major place of electoral fight as it has chosen Modi or which elected Modi to Lok Sabha by a margin of over three lakh votes in 2014.

PM in the last phase of election is also campaigning in Kashi Vishwanath and Temples in the city on 4th February after addressing a rally in Jaunpur.

Rahul and Akhilesh will be holding a roadshow in the heart of the city through the same route PM Modi is expected to take to Kal Bhairav Mandir all this happening on the same day.

Prime Minister Modi according a tentative campaign schedule to return to Varanasi on the 5th and might be spending a night in his constituency.

Top ministers of the BJP and poll managers have been camping in Kashi in the run up to the last lap of the seven phased UP polls. The upper caste and non Yadav OBC mobilisation is complete in thr last two phases. We have struck alliances with smaller parties like Apna Dal and it is working well on the ground" ; says a BJP leader in Varanasi.

Modi has doubled the election rally in the state and the Main poll campaigner Modi is leading the election rally from the front and it has become more a like central election VS state election.

For BJP it is important to win this election and loosing the UP election will leave no excuse for the BJP, Modi and Amit Shah. Falling in UP will give the Opposition a huge amuno against the BJP especially over the question of demonetisation.

There is another trend which can also be seen in UP election is that earlier when ever earlier the BJP fought the election without a CM face in UP it has won the election, this trend is also seen towards BJP and there are more chances for the BJP coming as a winner in the UP election 2017.  

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