The high-profile campaign for the third phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly election ended on Friday, ahead of voting on 59 seats across 16 districts of the state scheduled for Sunday. The battle has now shifted to Yadav land and Bundelkhand after the first two rounds in Jat and Muslim dominated regions. In 2017, the BJP … Read more
A month after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath controversially called the assembly election “80 versus 20”, Mohammed Shamin, a 40-year-old grocer in Meerut, has a different set of numbers to offer. “It is 60-40 in Meerut,” he says, on the eve of the first phase of state polls. “All the Muslims, who form about … Read more
Two former IPS officers who are now BJP leaders are playing a significant role in highlighting the difference in the law-and-order situation in Uttar Pradesh during the rule of Yogi Adityanath and the previous Samajwadi Party regime. Asim Arun had served as the commissioner of police in Kanpur before joining the BJP recently and his … Read more
Ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has started taking suggestions from the public for its ‘Sankalp Patra’ (poll manifesto) and for this party leaders are reaching to every house with a postcard and Toll-free number to make UP number 1, party sources informed on Tuesday. “BJP has started … Read more
The Samajwadi Party is cobbling up alliances with smaller parties in UP to form a joint front against the BJP. Over the last two days, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has met several leaders from other parties and has finalised alliances with a couple of them. On Wednesday, Yadav met with AAP leaders Sanjay Singh and … Read more
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said if her party wins the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, skill development schools will be opened in every district in the name of ‘veeranganas’ like freedom fighter Jhalkari Bai. The Congress leader has already made a number of women-centric promises, including 40 per cent tickets to … Read more
In the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Union home minister Amit Shah is expected to hold a series of meetings with BJP leaders in Lucknow on Friday. “It is a purely an organisational visit where the home minister would launch BJP’s membership drive and hold meetings with party’s former and current office-bearers,” UP … Read more
In her ongoing bid to fix a strategy for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday had one-on-one meetings with her party leaders and workers at the UPCC headquarters in Lucknow. Gandhi, currently on a five-day visit to the state capital, held one-to-one meetings and discussed the election … Read more
Siddharthnagar/Gorakhpur (UP), Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Thursday said Uttar Pradesh under Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is scaling new heights and stressed that the state needs the BJP government again in 2022. Pradhan, who is the BJP’s in-charge for the coming assembly elections in the state, was in UP to inaugurate the nutrition month and … Read more