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Seen as the semi-final battle before the 2024 general elections, the outcome of the Assembly elections in five States, including the most populous Uttar Pradesh, contains crucial political messages. The key among them is that the BJP continues to reap the electoral harvest largely because of the absence of a cohesive alternative political formation. The […]
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Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party leader Yogi Adityanath won Gorakhpur Urban seat with a massive margin of 54,858 votes. His victory comes as the BJP is on course to retain power in Uttar Pradesh. The counting of the votes polled in assembly elections is underway. According to the Election Commission of […]
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By Ratan Mani Lal In more than a month of campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, marked by charges, counter-allegations, promises and rhetoric, political parties put in everything at their disposal into the contest. The major election issues included price rise, cases of violence against women, Covid-19, unemployment, unresponsive government machinery, polarisation, favouritism and stray cattle menace. […]
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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has said that the ruling BJP was set to be removed from power. He said the BJP was losing ground and, as the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections progress and the people of Azamgarh, Ballia, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra vote, the saffron party will be completely routed. “We have done […]
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Hyderabad: A case is booked at Mangalhat police station against BJP MLA T Raja Singh for allegedly threatening voters of Uttar Pradesh recently. It was booked following the directions of Election Commission of India. The BJP legislator who represents the Goshamahal constituency in Hyderabad had in a video said that the BJP will come to […]
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Hyderabad: The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Saturday ordered Telangana Chief Electoral Officer to register FIR under relevant Sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Representation of People Act-1951 against BJP MLA T Raja Singh for his impugned statements. It has also prohibited him from holding any public meetings, processions, rallies, road shows and […]
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Hyderabad: BJP MLA T Raja Singh’s foot-in-the-mouth remark that bulldozers were ready in Uttar Pradesh to raze down houses of people who do not vote for the saffron party in the ongoing Assembly elections evoked sharp criticism from TRS and other Opposition parties. In a tweet, TRS working president KT Rama Rao said: “Just when […]
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Lucknow: The war of words between Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his Delhi counterpart Arvind Kejriwal has intensified with the two leaders sharpening their claws on Twitter. While Kejriwal said that his Uttar Pradesh counterpart a “harsh and cruel ruler”, Yogi called the Delhi Chief Minister a “liar”. The Twitter war on Monday […]
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BJP is not sure whether religion as a card will be able to deliver the State for it
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Lucknow: The BJP on Friday released a list of 91 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, giving tickets to 13 ministers and repeating its sitting MLA in Ayodhya. The party dropped Co-Operative Affairs Minister Mukut Bihari Verma, whose son Gaurav will be contesting from his Kaiserganj seat in Bahraich. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi […]
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Lucknow: Paediatrician Dr Kafeel Khan, whose name surfaced in the 2017 BRD Medical college tragedy in which several children died allegedly for lack of oxygen, said on Tuesday that he may contest against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur if any party supports him. Dr Khan was terminated from the service on November […]
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By Arun Sinha Of all the States going to polls next month, Uttar Pradesh is where the BJP’s stakes are the highest. The party has been using the State as a laboratory for testing a ‘Hindu model’ of government —a model that, in the words of Prime Minister Modi, combines virasat (heritage) with vikas (development). […]
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New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday gave a hint that she would be the chief ministerial face of the party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. “Do you see anyone else’s face from the Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh? You can see my face everywhere,” said Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on being […]
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Lucknow: In a major development, Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Azad will contest from Gorakhpur as Azad Samaj Party (ASP) candidate against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath. Chandra Shekhar had announced his decision to field candidates in around 33 seats in Uttar Pradesh after his alliance talks with Samajwadi Party failed. Though the battle […]
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Both the leaders and their supporters had quit the BJP after Swami Prasad Maurya resigned.
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Cabinet Minister and BJP's state election in charge Dharmendra Pradhan and party national general secretary announced the first list of candidates for the polls at the party headquarters in the national capital on Saturday.
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Lucknow: Resignations are rolling out in the BJP in Uttar Pradesh with an alarming frequency, days ahead of the State goes to the polls in seven phases between February 10 and March 7. After Swami Prasad Maurya and Roshan Lal Varma, yet another BJP MLA – Brijesh Prajapati from Tindwari in Banda – has said […]
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Lucknow: In a jolt to the BJP ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Minister Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday resigned from the state cabinet. He is likely to join the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP). Informing about his decision, Maurya said in a tweet in Hindi, “Due to the attitude of gross neglect towards […]
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By now, the BJP’s political template has become tiresomely familiar; play the communal card to seek electoral dividends. Whether in States where it is already in power or in States where it is in the opposition, the saffron party has made divisive politics its core principle. Stoking public fears over an imaginary enemy and invoking […]
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Dehradun: Uttarakhand Raksha Abhiyan founder Darshan Bharti has submitted a complaint to Dehradun SSP Janmejay Khanduri against AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi for allegedly instigating people against the Hindu religion and issuing an open threat to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, endangering his life. In a letter handed over to the senior superintendent of police […]
