Elections

UP Polls: Akhilesh, Jayant Chaudhary booked for violating covid norms

Gautam Buddh Nagar: Uttar Pradesh police has filed an FIR against Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary, and about 400 others for allegedly violating COVID-19 norms…
Akhilesh, Jayant and Priyanka come face to face in UP, greet each other

New Delhi: Amidst the campaign trail underway ahead of the high voltage Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, RLD President Jayant Chaudhary and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi came…

BJP minister who ‘competed’ with husband for poll ticket, lost it to ex ED officer

Kulsum Mustafa By Kulsum Mustafa This is the poll story of woman disempowerment, BJP style. The party, which had propped up Swati Singh, as a ‘circumstantial’ candidate from Lucknow’s Sarojninagar seat in…
BJP frustrated as farmers, labourers supporting SP-RLD alliance: Jayant Chaudhary

Bulandshahr: Rashtriya Lok Dal president Jayant Chaudhary on Thursday claimed that youth, farmers and labourers are supporting the RLD-Samajwadi Party alliance in Uttar Pradesh which is adding to BJP’s frustration. Addressing a…
People facing criminal charges will walk out of jail if SP voted to power: Shah

Bulandshahr: Union Home Minister and senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Amit Shah while addressing a public meeting in Anupshahar said that if Samajwadi Party is voted to power ‘mistakenly’ in the state,…
Asaduddin Owaisi, Kejriwal sent by BJP to split votes: Congress

Panaji: The Congress on Thursday likened Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal to All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen’s Asaduddin Owaisi, both of whom, the opposition party leader Randeep Surjewala said, were being…
‘Babaji’ under pressure due to fear of historic defeat in UP polls: Akhilesh

Lucknow: Taking a jibe at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said that the BJP leader is under a lot of “pressure” due to…

Bullets fired at Asaduddin Owaisi’s car in UP, one arrested

Hyderabad: Some unknown miscreants have fired three to four rounds of bullets on the car of AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi while he was passing through the Dasna area in Uttar Pradesh. However,…
UP polls: Congress, SP practise ‘anti-social’ politics: Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi

New Delhi: Ahead of the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Wednesday launched an attack on opposition parties in the state saying the Congress and Samajwadi Party…
Akhilesh govt will build Ayodhya temple faster, better: Ram Gopal Yadav

New Delhi: Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav on Wednesday refuted Home Minister Amit Shah’s statements on the SP’s stand on the construction of the Ram temple at Ayodhya, saying the temple…
UP Polls: Rahul, Priyanka among Congress 30-star campaigners for second phase

New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday released the list of star campaigners for the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections to be held on February 14. The list of 30 leaders…
Battle for UP: Criminals out, wives in

Lucknow: Even as it mounts a blistering attack on the Samajwadi Party for giving tickets to criminals, the BJP itself has fielded the wives of two convicted criminals in the Uttar Pradesh…
Hema Malini confident of BJP’s victory in UP Polls

New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Mathura Hema Malini expressed confidence in her party forming the government in the state once…
AIMIM no B-Team of BJP: Asaduddin Owaisi

Ghaziabad: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday mocked the allegation that his party was working as a B Team of the BJP to divert Muslim votes away from the Samajwadi Party, saying that…
Election Commission extends ban on roadshows, padyatras till Feb 11

New Delhi: The Election Commission on Monday extended the ban on roadshows, ‘padyatras’, vehicle rallies and processions till February 11, but enhanced the number of people allowed in door-to-door campaigning from the…