Uttar Pradesh

KUNDA(PRATAPGARH): The Kunda assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh is witnessing an electoral fight for the first time after a gap of 30 years as the six time sitting MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh aka Raja Bhaiya is facing his friend turned foe in the form of Samajwadi Party’s candidate, Gulshan Yadav.Raja Bhaiya, who floated his Jansatta […]

UP law minister Brajesh Pathak, who was once part of Bahujan Samaj Party as a Member Parliament from Unnao, before he was handpicked by then party president Amit Shah ahead of 2017 Utttar Pradesh Vidhan Sabha elections. Pathak was in 2021, ahead of 2022 polls, was inducted into the prestigious national executive body of the […]

Minister of state (MoS) for law and justice S P Singh Baghel, who is a sitting Lok Sabha MP from Agra, surprised many in Uttar Pradesh when he decided to take on former Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal Vidhan Sabha, in the family backyard of Mulayam Yadav family, but as he builds his campaign […]

The second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly polls saw 61.96% voter turnout . The nine districts voting in the second phase are Saharanpur, Bijnor, Moradabad, Sambhal, Rampur, Amroha, Budaun, Bareilly and Shahjahanpur. The fate of 586 candidates will decided in this phase. The highest voting (67.52%) has taken place in Saharanpur district, while Shahjahanpur (55.20%) […]

MADAULI (ATRAULI, ALIGARH): Clad in a cheap cotton saree, diminutive Ramwati Devi looks content as she snuggles up on a cot, overlooked by a towering obituary poster remembering her husband and former UP CM Kalyan Singh who had refused to fire at  Kar Sewaks over demolition of Babri mosque in 1992. Devi, who stays at […]

New Delhi: Free sops offered by political parties in this election season is not going down well with many in the trading class in Uttar Pradesh. Common traders are breaking down the maths of freebies offered by the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and calling it out.   The Samajwadi Party (SP), one of the […]

New Delhi: The Congress and the ruling BJP on Monday released the list of 28 and 45 candidates respectively for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. In an interesting development, the BJP has denied tickets to two sitting women MLAs and fielded their husbands instead. The BJP has fielded Sanjay Singh from Amethi after dropping his first […]

GORAKHPUR: Wealth accumulation for most politicians is natural but for some chief ministers, there’s little that money and luxuries attract.  Uttar Pradesh Chief minister Yogi Adityanath, who is making a debut in the 2022 assembly polls, is an owner of a modest Rs 12,000 mobile phone and has an annual salary of Rs 13.2 lakh. […]

NEW DELHI: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, who was set to address a press conference in Muzaffarnagar along with alliance partner Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary on Friday alleged that his helicopter was not allowed to take off from Delhi whereas another chopper carrying BJP leader […]

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 […]