Tag: UP Assembly polls

  • UP polls: 55 seats throughout 9 districts to vote in Segment II on Monday

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    LUCKNOW: With a powerful narrative constructed across the problems starting from farmers, agriculture, caste, communal polarization and Covid, the degree is now set for segment II polling to 55 meeting constituencies unfold throughout 9 districts within the western and Rohilkhand area of Uttar Pradesh on Monday.

    Whilst marketing campaign for 2d segment of 7-phased state meeting election ended on Saturday night, the polling will get started at 7 am in consonance with the ECI pointers to verify Covid-free polls. The balloting will finish at 6 pm.

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    As many as 586 applicants are within the fray in the second one segment which has round 2 crore citizens on this segment.  In 2017, the BJP had gained 38 of 55 seats going to the polls in the second one segment. Samajwadi Birthday party had carried out higher on this segment as in comparison to the primary segment in 2017. SP had were given 15 of the 55 seats. Whilst BSP had didn’t open its account in the second one segment in 2017, Congress had gained two seats.

    Of 55 seats going to polls on Monday, seven are reserved. 4 of Yogi ministers together with senior BJP chief and UP finance minister Suresh Khanna from Shahjahanpur, Gulabo Devi from Chanduasi in Sambhal, Baldev Singh Aulakh from Billaspur seat in Rampur, and Mahesh Chandra Gupta from Badaun City are checking out the ballot waters.

    Any other fight to be watched for could be in Rampur the place SP stalwart and celebration MP Azam Khan’s destiny can be at stake in the second one segment. Azam Khan is lodged in Sitapur district prison since February 2020 in reference to collection of legal and civil instances. BJP has fielded Akash Saxena towards Azam. Saxena has been in the back of accommodation such a lot of proceedings of land grabbing and unlawful acquisition of land for Jauhar College towards Azam.

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    The districts, going to polls on Monday, have a good bite of the Muslim inhabitants. Moradabad and Rampur have round 50 according to cent of the Muslim inhabitants able to having a certain sway over the seats going to polls in the second one segment in each districts.

    The districts going to polls in the second one segment include of Saharanpur, Bijonre, Moradabad, Sambhal, Amroha, Bareilly, Badaun, Shajahanpur and Rampur. Quite a lot of turncoats together with former Yogi minister Dharam Singh Saini, former AYUSH minister, is contesting from his conventional Nakur seat on SP price ticket.

    Saini had abandoned the BJP in conjunction with Swami Prasad Maurya in mid-January and had joined the Samajwadi Birthday party. Additionally, any other outstanding turncoat is Naresh Saini, the sitting Congress MLA from Behut in Saharanpur. Naresh Saini is in fray from Behut however as a BJP candidate this time. Tilhar in Shahjahanpur is any other seat the place BJP turncoat Roshan Lal Verma is pitched because the SP candidate this time.

  • Akhilesh releases Samajwadi ballot manifesto promising slew of freebies

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    LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Birthday celebration president Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday launched the birthday celebration’s manifesto — Samajwadi Vachan Patra– with a tag line ‘satya vachan, atoot vaada,’ with the promise to make UP farmers debt-free through 2025 through framing a legislation.

    The 22-page SP manifesto constructed from 22 guarantees together with the announcement of 7 freebies but even so MSP for all vegetation and making sure fee for sugarcane farmers in 15 days.  “All farmers gets loose energy for irrigation, interest-free mortgage, insurance coverage, and pension preparations will probably be made,” added SP leader.

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    The SP leader promised 33 in keeping with cent reservation to girls in executive jobs, together with within the police division. The birthday celebration manifesto additionally promised loose schooling for ladies from number one categories until post-graduation. Additionally, a ‘Kanya Vidhya Dhan’ scheme will probably be reinstated underneath which women clearing their elegance twelfth board examination gets a one-time quantity of ₹36,000. It additionally pledged to offer a pc to all scholars clearing their elegance 12 forums.

    Yadav stated the ‘Samajwadi Pension’ will probably be re-launched, underneath which aged other folks, needy ladies and households within the beneath poverty stage (BPL)-category gets ₹18,000 particular person annually.

    Additional, the manifesto claimed to verify Samajwadi canteens and ‘kirana’ (groceries) retail outlets the place deficient labourers, masons and destitute gets ration and different necessities on concessional charges. Those canteens will supply ‘Samajwadi Thali’ for ₹10.

    A helpline quantity for migrant labourers of the state –  ‘1890 Mazdoor Energy Line’ will probably be released, the manifesto added.

    SP MANIFESTO: KEY POINTS

    Farmers will probably be made debt-free through 2025. A legislation to learn maximum deficient farmers can be enacted.
    MSP will probably be introduced for all vegetation
    Households of farmers killed throughout farm agitation gets Rs 25 lakh
    Fee to cane farmers inside 15 days
    All farmers gets loose energy for irrigation, interest-free mortgage, insurance coverage, and pension preparations will probably be made
    300 devices loose energy to all within the state
    Outdated pension scheme (pre-2005) to be re-launched
    All two-wheeler house owners to get 1-litre petrol per thirty days, 3-litre petrol or 6 kg CNG per thirty days to auto drivers
    Two cylinders in keeping with 12 months to all BPL households
    City employment ensure Act will probably be introduced at the traces of the Mahatma Gandhi Nationwide Rural Employment Ensure Scheme (MGNREGS)
    33 in keeping with cent reservation to girls in executive jobs, together with police division
    Unfastened schooling to women from kindergarten to Publish Commencement
    Kanya Vidyadhan to be resumed with Rs 36,000 to be given to women one time after clearing Elegance 12 checks
    Samajwadi Pension Yojana Rs 18,000 in keeping with annum for 1 crore households
    Samajwadi Canteen to supply Rs 10 thal
    Computer to all elegance XII go scholars
    Unfastened wifi zone in all towns and villages
    A helpline quantity for migrant labourers of the state –  ‘1890 Mazdoor Energy Line’ will probably be released
    All districts to have cybercrime devices

  • Uttar Pradesh polls 2022: BJP, Congress industry barbs over actor Archana Gautam’s candidature

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    LUCKNOW: The Congress’ resolution of fielding actor-model Archana Gautam from Hastinapur constituency within the upcoming Uttar Pradesh meeting polls has kicked up an argument, with the BJP accusing the grand previous birthday celebration of indulging in “affordable exposure”.

    Then again, the Congress has maintained that it has given a chance to an artiste to go into political house. “The Congress isn’t having applicants, and is able to box any candidate to garner affordable exposure and headlines. There is not any feeling of serving the general public at the back of fielding the sort of candidate. It additionally displays that there is not any seriousness in them (Congress), as they have got fielded an ‘apolitical’ candidate. It additionally displays the loss of adulthood on their section,” UP BJP spokesperson Rakesh Tripathi stated.

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    His remarks come after bikini photos of the Congress candidate, who has been a good looks festival winner, surfaced on social media.

    Hitting again on the ruling BJP within the state, UP Congress spokeman Ashok Singh stated, “Is there any hurt in fielding an artiste as a candidate if she is to go into politics? So far as the BJP is anxious, it has quite a lot of artistes, and one in every of them is a minister. If an artiste desires to come back to politics and serve folks, this can be a just right signal, and will have to be liked.”

    He added that the fees levelled by means of the BJP show off their dangerous mindset.

    Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha and Sant Mahasabha leader Swami Chakrapani additionally hit out on the Congress candidate from Hastinapur (SC) meeting constituency in Meerut district, pronouncing “not anything can also be anticipated from a birthday celebration which has long past mentally bankrupt”.

    “If anyone is coming into social existence, then he/she will have to be person who respects our tradition. However, the Congress differentiates between ‘Hindu’ and ‘Hindutva’. Not anything will have to be anticipated from the leaders of a birthday celebration which has long past mentally bankrupt. Day after today, they are able to box a legal as a candidate, and will slump all the way down to any stage to garner votes,” he alleged.

    The a very powerful state meeting polls will probably be held in seven stages starting February 10. The consequences will probably be introduced on March 10.