UP elections 2022

Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Thursday released another list of 47 candidates, which includes seven Muslim candidates and former BJP Minister Dara Singh Chauhan. Earlier, it was announced that SP chief and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will contest from Mainpuri’s Karhal and his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav from Jaswantnagar assembly seat. The Samajwadi […]

KAIRANA (UTTAR PRADESH): On Monday, Samajwadi Party (SP) nominated Nahid Hasan as their candidate from Kairana for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The sitting MLA from this constituency, Nahid was arrested by the UP Police under Gangster Act on January 16. SP’s decision to give him a ticket to contest the poll has drawn […]

NEW DELHI: Former Congress minister and Jharkhand Congress in-charge Ratanjit Pratap Singh (RPN Singh), a Doon school alumnus whose career in the Grand Old Party spans across three decades, on Tuesday joined the BJP, with likely indications that he will be fielded from the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming polls. This is […]

MUZAFFARNAGAR (UTTAR PRADESH):In  Muzaffarnagar city in the upper Ganga-Yamuna Doab region of Uttar Pradesh, reside the Tikaits. A family known to speak up and lead the cause for the farming community that they belong to, they are not new to the politics of the state. The New Indian team travels from Delhi to speak to […]

NEW DELHI: Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday launched the manifesto favouring the youth of Uttar Pradesh with a promise of employment to 20 lakh youth and setting up of a world level cricket academy. While launching a booklet, titled ‘Bharti Vidhan’, for Uttar Pradesh ahead of assembly […]

MATHURA/VRINDAVAN: Ambling into the winding lanes of Chowk Bazar in Mathura — the land of Krishna Janmbhoomi — the team of The New Indian reaches the factory where aroma of boiling milk, saffron, cardamom greets with hundreds of halwais squatted before the flames. In a few hours, as milk turns into khoya, which further becomes […]

LUCKNOW: A day after Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said that he will consult the people of Azamgarh on contesting assembly elections, he may contest the elections from his family pocket borough of Mainpuri’s Karhal seat. Top Samajwadi Party sources says that Akhilesh Yadav might contest from Karhal […]

RAE BARELI: As Congress MLA from Rae Bareli Aditi Singh resigned from her membership today, political analysts watching the state elections sounded their concern on the way Congress appears to be handling the party so close to the elections. At this rate, the grand old party would not be able to win a single seat […]

NEW DELHI: Days after Congress released its first list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party on Thursday released its second list of 41 candidates, including 16 women candidates and social activists. The Congress has till date released the list for 191 assembly constituencies in the politically vital state. As per the new […]

LUCKNOW: Hours after Aparna Yadav Bisht, the younger daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav said that he hopes that “she will work to save democracy and the constitution”. Congratulating his sister-in-law on her political move, the SP chief told a media […]