As the BJP almost certain to win the UP election, Keshav Prasad Maurya, the state party unit chief, who represents Phulpur in the Lok Sabha, is said to be one of the top contenders for the CM post. However, BJP yet to name Chief Ministerial candidate for the state. The[Read More…]
Officials will begin counting over 120 million votes on Saturday to elect a new assembly in Uttar Pradesh. The risk factor is high for almost 5,000 candidates across 403 seats in India’s most-populous state. Notably, UP saw a huge campaigning swinging from a growth narrative and caste reckoning to religious[Read More…]
With exit polls predicting a hung Assembly, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday did not completely rule out a post-poll tie-up with the BSP to prevent BJP from coming to power in the state. As exit polls indicated the BJP emerging as the largest single party in the[Read More…]
Sixty percent of voters cast their ballot in Uttar Pradesh and over 83 per cent votes were cast in final phase of the Manipur Assembly polls on Wednesday. Voting for the last phase covering 40 seats in Uttar Pradesh and 22 Assembly constituencies in Manipur began on Wednesday, with all[Read More…]
People in Mirzapur boycotted voting at booth 283 complaining that there was no development in their area. The seventh and last phase of Uttar Pradesh polls is underway on Wednesday, wherein people of 40 constituencies including PM Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi will choose their candidate. The anticipated polling was[Read More…]
The seventh and last phase of Uttar Pradesh polls is happening on Wednesday. People of 40 constituencies are going to vote in this election, one of which is PM Modi’s Lok Sabha constituency: Varanasi. The anticipated polling was backed up by a series of rally and campaign from various leaders[Read More…]
Anti-terror operation in Thakurganj area of Lucknow ended after almost 12 hours in the wee hours of Wednesday, killing one terror suspect. Initially, police denied reports of two terror suspects being in a house in the outskirts of Lucknow. “After opening the doors of the house (where the terrorist was[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announcements yet to see the light of day even after 18 months as Bihar still awaits the bounty of Rs 1.25 lakh-crore announced by him during the poll campaign in October 2015 elections. Ironically, the promises which were made during Bihar polls are yet to be[Read More…]
Terming Yadav family feud as awful, Mulayam Singh Yadav’s wife Sadhna Yadav on Tuesday admitted that she want her younger son Parteek Yadav to enter in politics. “Yes I feel bad after what happened in the family, I don’t blame anyone (for allegations on her),” she said when asked about[Read More…]
Pankhuri Pathak, 25, is making her mettlesome presence felt on national television debates regularly; and these days even more so because of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh elections. The youngest media face of Samajwadi Party, Pankhuri, is a strongly opinionated young woman who has risen up the rungs of politics with[Read More…]
After Prajapati’s aide, two more people have been detained from Noida in link with the rape case against absconding Samajwadi Party minister Gayatri Prajapati. The SP minister has accused of raping a woman and molesting her daughter. The Special Task Force held Ashok Tiwari and Ashish Shukla from Noida and[Read More…]
Expressing confidence that BJP will perform better in UP elections, BJP President Amit Shah on Monday said that they are going to form a government in the state with 2/3rd majority. “In the 5th phase of UP polls we have formed the government and in 6th, 7th phase the party[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said that he has a dream that everyone gets his own house by 2022. Addressing a rally in Rohaniya’s Khushipur, PM Modi asked people not to waste their vote on SP and BSP in the last phase of polling on March 8. He charged[Read More…]
Terming Prime Minister Modi as an old man, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday said they will form government of young people in Uttar Pradesh. “Hum yuvaaon ki sarkar laaenge Modi Ji ki aayu hogai hai, vo buzurg hogaye hain, unki age hogai hai (We will form a government of[Read More…]
On Sunday, at least, 12 people were killed in two different road accident in ISBT area here in less than 12 hours, says the police report. The first accident took place which killed five persons late last night. In another instance, seven lost their lives in the second road mishap[Read More…]
An estimated 57.03 per cent polling was recorded in the sixth phase of the ongoing Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh and 84 percent voters cast their votes in the first phase of polls in Manipur on Saturday. The day-long poll process remained peaceful in both the states. In Uttar Pradesh,[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to list out the work done by him.”I told you about 10 works done by my government. Can he (Modi) list 10 works? I am ready to give the performance report of my “I told you about[Read More…]
Polling began on Saturday in 49 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh and 38 constituencies of Manipur in the key assembly polls. More than 7 districts of eastern Uttar Pradesh are voting in the sixth phase of assembly polls on Saturday. The Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Azamgarh Lok Sabha constituency[Read More…]
Refuting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s claim of ISI involvement in the Kanpur train accident, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday alleged that BJP leaders were used to seeking votes by misguiding the people. “Our railway minister could not take care of the tracks in Kanpur and gave a[Read More…]