<b>Periscope:</b> It's a week of polls and poll results

The last phase of UP polls is on Mar 8 and results for five state polls will be declared on Mar 11

Two crucial elections and one crucial set of election results are due this week – the last phase of the UP Assembly polls and the election for mayors in Maharashtra will be held this week, besides the declaration of results of the Assembly elections to five states on 11 March.

In UP, 40 constituencies in seven districts will see polling in the final phase on 8 March. In Mumbai, the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) were pitted against each other, with the country’s richest civic body due to conduct the mayoral election on March 8. But the