Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav won the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday by a margin of 1,70,000 votes over his nearest rival and BJP MP Subrata Pathak. According to Election Commission data, Yadav got 6,42,292 votes while Pathak polled 4,71,370 votes. BSP’s Imran Bin Zafar got 81,639 votes. Under Yadav’s leadership, … Read more
Perfume capital and a traditional Samajwadi Party bastion, Kannauj is headed for a close contest between the BJP and the SP, with law and order and welfare policies cited by BJP supporters as reason for their support even as halting of vikas (development) in the district, unemployment and resentment against the BJP’s religious plank bolsters … Read more
The Income Tax department on Friday raided multiple premises linked to certain perfume traders in Uttar Pradesh, including an SP MLC from Kannauj, as part of a tax evasion investigation, official sources said. They said the searches are being conducted in Kannauj, Kanpur, the national capital region, Surat, Mumbai and few other places, and about … Read more