Hitting back to Prime Minister’s inexperience barb at him, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said he has learnt to cycle fast so that neither BSP’s elephant nor BJP’s lotus can come anywhere near the SP. A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi questioned as to how the[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said despite being born in Gujarat he had chosen Uttar Pradesh as his land of vocation, drawing a parallel with Lord Krishna who was born in Uttar Pradesh but made Gujarat his ‘karma bhoomi’. The Prime Minister said he was an adopted son of[Read More…]
Polling for the politically crucial states of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand took place on Wednesday as the ruling Samajwadi Party and Congress party in the respective states try to retain power but are getting challenged by Bharatiya Janata Party in both the states. Polling in the hill state of Uttarakhand[Read More…]
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday accused BJP, for indulging in the politics of hatred and pitting one person against another. “Wherever BJP goes, it spreads hatred and pits one person against another. I want to give this message to the BJP and the RSS that we will spread[Read More…]
Taking a swipe at the Samajwadi Party Government in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said though UP (Uttar Pradesh) means ‘up’, nothing here is going up. “English mein ‘UP’ ka matlab ‘up’ hota hai lekin aaj UP mei kahin up nazar nahi aata, sab down nazar aata hai (In[Read More…]
Voting in Uttarakhand along with the second phase of Uttar Pradesh elections began on Wednesday morning. Polling is being carried out in 69 seats in Uttarakhand and in 67 constituencies in UP. Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat will be contesting from Haridwar rural. In UP, voting is being held in[Read More…]
Polling will be held on Wednesday in 67 Assembly constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh in the second of seven phases and in 69 Assembly seats in Uttarakhand. 20 candidates are in the fray in this phase in UP with a maximum of 22 from Barhapur (Bijnor) and a minimum of[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh Police detained Dainik Jagran online editor Shekhar Tripathi late on Monday night for publishing an exit poll after the first phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections in favor of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Notably, the model code of conduct ban declaration of exit polls before the conclusion[Read More…]
Four years after a woman accused Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Arun Verma and seven others of gang-raping her, the 21-year-old survivor was found dead near her house on Saturday night. Officials conducting the probe in the case believed that the gangrape survivor was initially poisoned and then strangled. Arun Verma[Read More…]
Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo, Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday addressed his first rally where he sought votes for brother Shivpal, saying the election is important for both of them. Mulayam, who was removed as party president with his son Akhilesh Yadav taking over the reins just before the polls following[Read More…]
Sixty-three per cent voters exercised their franchise in 73 assembly constituencies in the first of the seven-phase UP polls on Saturday, the Election Commission said.Barring an incident of Barring an incident of voter-slip snatching and clashes among supporters of rival parties at Baghpat, polling was peaceful.The turnout was estimated at[Read More…]
Attacking PM Narendra Modi over his “raincoat” remark about former prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi today said that he was aware that “PM was fond of peeping into others’ bathrooms” The comment was made in the Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi were addressing a joint[Read More…]
Nearly 2.6 crore people in 73 constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh will be eligible to vote on Saturday in the first of the seven phases of high-stake Assembly elections. 839 candidates, including from main contenders BJP, BSP, allies Congress and Samajwadi party, RLD as well independents, are in the fray[Read More…]
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will release a joint list of ten commitments to the people of Uttar Pradesh. The two leaders on Saturday will together release the Common Minimum Programme (CMP) here, Congress leader Satyadev Tripathi said. Some of the promises made by[Read More…]
Asserting that UP election is about ending 14-year exile of growth in the state, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday alleged that the government led by Akhilesh Yadav has sheltering and nursing crime. “Is this poll about choosing a new government, or about electing a new CM? This election is[Read More…]
