Assembly polls will be held in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa. UP is likely to have a 5-phase election, possibly in February. The other four states are likely to have a single phase poll.
Around 80,000 paramilitary personnel, apart from state policemen, are expected to be deployed during the Assembly polls.
The elections are the first since the anti-corruption agitation of Anna Hazare started to target the ruling Congress-led United Progressive Alliance directly.
Hazare has already said that he and his associated will tour all the poll bound states and campaign against the Congress party, rejecting the Lokpal Bill tabled by the Government.
Congress has been hoping of putting up a good show in Uttar Pradesh where it has been out of power for over two decades. Congress General Secretary and Amethi MP Rahul Gandhi has been hoping to capitalise on his party's surprisingly good show during the 2009 Lok Sabha elections and trying to revive his party in the state.
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