Tag: Uttar Pradesh Assembly Polls

  • Do not imagine in opinion polls: BSP supremo Mayawati to electorate

    By means of PTI

    BAREILLY: BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday took a swipe on the opinion polls carried out by way of the digital media and requested electorate to not take them severely.

    Addressing an election assembly right here, the BSP leader cited the opinion polls carried out within the 2007 Meeting elections, wherein her celebration used to be proven on the 3rd spot, nevertheless it received and shaped its executive.

    “When the Meeting elections had been held in UP in 2007, the opinion polls had been telling that the BSP would stay at No.3 however the BSP got here at No.1. The celebration, which used to be being proven at No.1 used to be driven to No.3. Do not imagine in opinion polls,” the BSP supremo mentioned.

    Attacking her political fighters, she mentioned the Congress has now not carried out any paintings for the Dalits and deficient.

    “The Congress has at all times been anti-Dalits,” she mentioned.

    At the Samajwadi Birthday celebration, she mentioned, “The goons and the mafia ruled the scene all through the SP executive. It used to be a central authority of riots and loot.”

    She additionally accused the BJP of being casteist and spreading hatred at the foundation of faith.

    “The insurance policies of the BJP and the RSS are casteist, and unfold rigidity and hatred within the title of faith,” she mentioned.

    She mentioned crime has greater all through the BJP executive whilst the Dalit and backward categories had been not able to get the good thing about reservation.

  • AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi broadcasts ex-Uttar Pradesh Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha as his entrance’s CM face

    By means of PTI

    AMROHA: AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi on Monday declared former state minister Babu Singh Kushwaha as the executive ministerial candidate of his celebration’s pre-poll alliance “Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha”.

    The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader made the announcement whilst additionally launching a scathing assault towards High Minister Narendra Modi and Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath in an election rally in Hasanpur right here.

    “If the Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha bureaucracy its executive in UP, Babu Singh Kushwaha shall be its first leader minister,” stated Owaisi, who had previous stated that if his pre-poll alliance is voted to energy, he’ll have two leader ministers in UP.

    Owaisi, alternatively, had no longer defined below what provision of the Charter, he would have two leader ministers in one state.

    In his Hassanpur rally, he additionally promised to have 3 deputy CMs for the state.

    “We have now additionally determined that there shall be 3 deputy leader ministers in UP of which one shall be a Muslim and two others from probably the most backward segment of the society,” he added.

    For the UP meeting elections, the AIMIM had cast a pre-poll alliance ‘Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha’ on January 22 together with Kushwaha’s Jan Adhikar Celebration and the Backward and Minority Group Workers Federation, headed by means of Waman Meshram.

    A minister within the Mayawati executive, Kushwaha were made convener of the Morcha.

    Attacking High Minister Narendra Modi, he asserted that he has the braveness of talking with Modi whilst having a look in his eyes.

    “If the BJP is doing one thing improper, I can lift my voice towards it. This nation was once liberated by means of our ancestors. We were given this nation unfastened with our blood. This nation is mine and everybody else’s,” he asserted.

    “However as of late when the BJP talks about converting the secular persona of this nation, Owaisi will glance into the eyes of Modi and talk and he’ll proceed to take action,” he stated.

    The Hyderabad MP additionally attacked UP Leader Minister Adityanath, calling him “Baba” and pronouncing that he has just one option to all issues: Defeat Mughals.

    “If somebody thinks my voice shall be suppressed for talking towards the UP leader minister, keep in mind that so long as I’m alive, I can stay talking the reality. Your energy is not going to suppress me,” stated Owaisi.

    Accusing the Adityanath executive of state of no activity, he stated, “Baba’s executive was once there for 5 years however Baba did not anything. For those who speak about your issues of Baba, Baba will simply say, ‘O younger guy, you vote for us, we need to defeat the Mughals.”

    “And the SP-BSP will say that you simply vote for us and defeat the BJP,” he stated, including: “They are saying the BJP wins handiest on account of the Majlis getting into into the electoral fray.”

    Owaisi additionally took digs on the leader minister’s quite a lot of different purported remarks right through the continuing electioneering.

    “Yogi Adityanath says he’ll create chilly in Might-June. Leader Minister, you will have to change into a meteorologist. You (Yogi) say that you’re going to take away the warmth (garmi nikal denge), Are you a physician of dysentery, is Baba promoting Isabgol?” he requested.

    “Concentrate to our message, Baba. The warmth that Majlis has created in youths, will neither be diminished by means of your warmth nor your chilly. The warmth now we have created is at the basis of fact, at the foundation of truth to get appreciate and to achieve our percentage. Even though I die, those other folks will pass forward with our message,” he asserted.

    “I need freedom from radical forces. I need freedom from the ones events who’re fielding RSS applicants and are telling me that you simply do slavery. I need brotherhood so now we have shaped the morcha,” the AIMIM leader stated in his rally.

  • BJP leaders inform lies, make other people battle every different: SP leader Akhilesh Yadav

    Through PTI

    SAHARANPUR: SP leader Akhilesh Yadav on Monday introduced a scathing assault towards the ruling BJP, asking the birthday party to modify its identify as he alleged that its leaders inform lies, cheat other people and pit them towards every different.

    The larger the BJP chief, the larger the lies she or he tells, the Samajwadi Celebration (SP) president alleged.

    The birthday party must alternate its identify from “Bhajpa” to “Bhajhpa”, he stated, including that “jh” in its identify intended “jhansa” (dishonest), “jhagra” (bickering) and “jhooth” (lies).

    The birthday party cheats other people, cause them to battle towards every different and its leaders inform lies, the previous Uttar Pradesh leader minister stated.

    “They indulge within the politics of accusations. The BJP desires to take the elections to in different places,” he advised newshounds relating to the impending state Meeting polls.

    He rejected the fees that the cash recovered from a Kanpur fragrance supplier throughout a raid by means of the central companies had any hyperlink along with his birthday party.

    “Not anything could be a larger lie than this. Other folks sitting at prime posts are telling lies,” he stated, it seems that relating to Union House Minister Amit Shah, who has again and again connected the seized quantity with the Yadav’s birthday party.

    The SP leader additionally stated girl are feeling insecure in UP below the BJP rule.

    The Nationwide Fee for Girls has were given maximum lawsuits from UP, he stated.

    The utmost custodial deaths have taken position within the state, he added.

    “We now have observed how the son of the Union minister of state for house drove a jeep over farmers. The federal government desires to protect him. The federal government desires to weigh down the Charter because it has overwhelmed the farmers,” he stated it seems that relating to the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

    Police have arrested Union minister Ajay Mishra’s son Ashish for the demise of 4 farmers, who had been mowed down by means of automobiles, allegedly being pushed by means of BJP staff.

    When requested about Top Minister Narendra Modi’s digital programme in Bijnor, which was once modified owing to climate stipulations, Yadav in a lighter vein stated, “No, no, it was once now not because of the elements. There would had been any other reason why.”

    “The Punjab reason why can have been at the back of it,” Yadav stated, hinting on the Punjab incident, from the place PM Modi had to go back with out addressing a rally after a safety breach.

    The BJP’s rival events had claimed that he had to go back as other people didn’t flip up for the BJP rally, which the PM was once scheduled to handle.

    To any other query that UP Deputy Leader Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya has termed Akhilesh Yadav as a “sympathiser of the mafia”, the SP leader stated, “He’s going to have the ability to see a mafia if he sees himself in a replicate.”

    Yadav additionally stated if voted to energy, the identify of Maa Shakumbhari Devi Vishvavidyalaya is probably not modified.

    Saharanpur will vote in the second one section of the Meeting elections on February 14.

  • UP polls: PM Narendra Modi pitches building schedule, accuses earlier state governments of loot

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    LUCKNOW: Pitching in for the advance schedule forward of the primary segment of UP meeting polls on February 10, High Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday lashed out on the earlier state governments accusing them of drifting clear of other people’s problems and their wishes and specializing in their simplest schedule to loot the state.

    Addressing citizens in Mathura, Agra and Bulandshahr days earlier than the primary segment of the state meeting polls nearly, Modi stated the folk of Uttar Pradesh had made up our minds to move with building as the largest factor within the upcoming meeting election.

    “The folk of UP have made up our minds to forget about those that do politics at the foundation of cash, muscle energy, casteism, communalism, they are going to now not get the affection of the general public,” he stated.

    Modi stated it a the age of the ones politicians who serve other people by way of turning into their ‘sevak’ (servant) and were given their blessings.

    Taking a swipe at Samajwadi Celebration president Akhilesh Yadav over his contemporary commentary that he noticed Lord Krishna in his dream, the high minister stated, “Witnessing the immense reinforce for the BJP, those other people at the moment are seeing Lord Krishna of their desires.”

    In the meantime, in a bid to provide an additional push to the possibilities of saffron, Union House Minister Amit Shah to sought other people’s reinforce in Baghpat for placing  Uttar Pradesh at quantity one in every of essentially the most advanced states within the nation.

    “These days UP is the second one greatest economic system within the nation. Give us some other alternative to make it there to maximum financial energy within the nation,” stated Shah whilst addressing a meeting in Baghpat on Sunday.

    Each PM and Shah commenced their speeches by way of paying tribute to Lata Mangeshkar, the nightingale of India, who gave up the ghost on Sunday morning.

    Shah indexed the advance tasks undertaken by way of the Yogi Adityanath executive in jat land of Baghpat throughout the final 5 years.

    In 2017 meeting election, BJP has gained the Baghpat seat and the birthday party has repeated sitting MLA Yogesh Dhama whilst SP-RLD has reposed religion in Ahmad Hamid of Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).

  • BJP names 45 extra applicants for Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls

    By way of PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP named 45 extra applicants on Sunday for the approaching Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls, fielding Sanjay Sinh from Amethi and Daya Shankar Singh from Ballia Nagar.

    Daya Shankar Singh and his spouse Swati Singh, lately a minister within the state executive, had been each looking for the birthday party price ticket to contest from Sarojini Nagar, a seat lately represented within the Meeting by way of the latter, however the ruling birthday party fielded former Enforcement Directorate (ED) officer Rajeshwar Singh from there.

    The birthday party has dropped the incumbent MLA, Surendra Singh, and fielded state minister Anand Swaroop Shukla from Bairia.

    Sinh hails from the erstwhile royal circle of relatives of Amethi and had joined the Bharatiya Janata Birthday celebration (BJP) in 2019 after quitting the Congress.

  • Asaduddin Owaisi ballot spouse, ex-UP Minister Babu Singh Kushwaha says he too were given threats in conjunction with AIMIM leader

    Via PTI

    BUDAUN: Days after gunshots had been fired at AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi’s automotive in Pilkhuwa of Hapur district, his ballot spouse and previous state minister Babu Singh Kushwaha on Sunday claimed that he and the Hyderabad MP had been getting threats.

    Kushwaha, the convenor of newly-launched Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha, stated, “Owaisi instructed me that when the formation of the Morcha (outfit), he’s getting loss of life threats.”

    “I (Kushwaha) additionally instructed him that I’m additionally getting threats. We took the threats as a shaggy dog story however the assault happened and the threats proved to be true,” Kushwaha, the manager of Jan Adhikar Celebration, added.

    Kushwaha made the declare right here whilst campaigning for his celebration candidate for the Bisauli meeting seat, Rekha Chandra.

    Requested why did they now not hotel any criticism, Kushwaha stated, “We concept the threats had been simply jokes and felt as though any person used to be doing mischief. However the assault on Owaisi happened after recce.”

    Owaisi had released final month Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha collectively together with his celebration AIMIM, Kushwaha’s outfit and an all-India frame of presidency workers of the backward, Dalits and minority neighborhood, based by way of Kanshi Ram within the Seventies.

    Bullets had been fired at Owaisi on Thursday in Pilkhuwa of the Hapur district which works to the polls on February 10.

    On Owaisi now not taking the protection quilt, he stated he (Owaisi) does now not consider in violence and so, he had returned it.

    Budaun will move to the polls on February 14 throughout the second one section of the meeting elections.

    The Hapur Police on Friday stated it has arrested the second one suspect concerned within the firing at Asaduddin Owaisi’s automotive.

    The police have lodged an FIR at the try to homicide fee within the case and arrested two accused within the case.

    The duo has been remanded in judicial custody.

    The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader’s automotive got here beneath assault in Hapur whilst he used to be returning to Delhi after attending election-related occasions in western Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night, per week sooner than meeting polls start within the state.

    No person used to be injured within the incident.

    “One of the vital accused has been recognized as Sachin, a resident of Badalpur in Gautam Buddh Nagar whilst the opposite is Shubham, a local of Nakur in Saharanpur,” police stated in a commentary.

    Two pistols had been seized from their ownership and a Maruti Alto automotive has additionally been impounded in reference to the case, police stated.

    Hapur Superintendent of Police Deepak Bhookar instructed PTI, “The guns used to fireplace at Asaduddin Owaisi at Chhijrasi toll plaza, had been purchased from Meerut.”

  • Uttar Pradesh polls: BSP releases checklist of 54 applicants, fields Khwaja Samsuddin towards Yogi Adityanath

    Through PTI

    LUCKNOW: The BSP on Saturday launched an inventory of 54 applicants for the approaching Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections, fielding Khwaja Samsuddin towards Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur City constituency.

    In its newest checklist, the Mayawati-led celebration has given tickets to seven Muslim applicants.

    The Bahujan Samaj Birthday party has fielded Santosh Tiwari from Fazilnagar meeting constituency in Kushinagar district.

    Tiwari will tackle Samajwadi Birthday party (SP) candidate and previous BSP chief Swami Prasad Maurya.

    The BSP has given tickets to Prateek Pandey from Katehari and to Chandra Prakash Verma from Akbarpur.

    Each constituencies fall beneath Ambedkarnagar district.

    Within the 2017 state meeting elections, BSP’s Lalji Verma and Ram Achal Rajbhar had received from Katehari and Akbarpur respectively.

    In November closing yr, Verma and Rajbhar joined the SP at a ‘Janadesh Maharally’ in Ambedkarnagar.

    The BSP has fielded its sitting MLA Uma Shankar Singh from Rasra in Ballia.

    The celebration has named Rajendra Singh as its candidate from Chillupar in Gorakhpur.

    The seat used to be previous held by way of Vinay Shankar Tiwari, who surrender the celebration and joined the SP.

    The 54 meeting constituencies for which the BSP introduced its applicants duvet Ambedkarnagar, Balrampur, Siddharthanagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia districts.

    Those districts will move to polls within the 6th section of the state meeting elections on March 3.

  • Criminals will face ‘bulldozer’ after UP polls effects: Yogi

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    MATHURA: Uttar Pradesh Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath right here on Wednesday warned criminals that they’d face the “bulldozer” as soon as the elections effects are out.

    Adityanath used to be addressing a public rally in Tarauli village of Chhatta meeting constituency. “Bulldozer will transfer in opposition to unsocial components and mafia after March 10,” Adityanath mentioned, it appears regarding the elevating of illegally-constructed structures by way of criminals.

    He mentioned they’re going to be despatched “notices” for his or her involvement in felony actions. He additionally confident that the killers of Ramveer – a village Pradhan who used to be shot lifeless ultimate week – might not be spared.

    The CM referred to riots in Kosi Kalan in Mathura and Muzaffarnagar that broke out underneath the Samajwadi Birthday party govt. He alleged Hindus have been killed in the ones riots and assets of buyers used to be devastated incited by way of activists of Samajwadi Birthday party.

    Adityanath mentioned all over the SP regime other folks have been implicated in false instances and large firing used to be carried out on “Ram Bhakts”.

    He mentioned the color of the cap of SP has been stained with their blood. “How astonishing is it that regardless of such acts, they’re shamelessly asking other folks to toughen them,” he mentioned in his marketing campaign speech in toughen of UP minister Laxmi Narain Chaudhary.

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    The CM additionally addressed public conferences in Goverdhan, campaigning for BJP candidate Megh Shyam, and in Mathura the place he campaigned for cupboard minister Srikant Sharma. Adityanath additionally claimed that the 3rd wave of Covid can be over inside every week.

    He complimented High Minister Narendra Modi for his dealing with of the pandemic and held accountable large vaccination for the stemming of the 3rd wave. He mentioned all over the height of Covid he and his fellow birthday party individuals labored to assist other folks, whilst “not one of the leaders or activists of SP, BSP, or Congress got here out of the 4 partitions in their space.”

    He mentioned the UP govt is distributing pills and smartphones amongst youths to pave the best way for his or her right kind on-line find out about.

    Adityanath introduced that the Chhatta Sugar mill has been green-lighted and finances to that finish have additionally been launched. But even so the sugar mill, the farmers of the world will now even be benefited from the acquisition of 1 lakh metric ton potato by way of PepsiCo, the Leader Minister mentioned.

    He mentioned factories all over the SP regime weren’t established within the space owing to deficient legislation and order as even other folks have been unsafe then.

  • BJP introduced listing of 17 applicants, no point out of Hriday Narain Dikshit, Swati Singh

    By way of PTI

    LUCKNOW: The BJP on Tuesday introduced a listing of 17 applicants for the Uttar Pradesh polls and didn’t come with Meeting Speaker Hriday Narain Dikshit and minister Swati Singh in it whilst Brijesh Pathak’s seat was once modified.

    The names introduced on Tuesday integrated applicants for all of the 9 Meeting seats in Lucknow.

    Ashutosh Shukla has been fielded from Bhagwantnagar in Unnao district the place Hriday Narain Dikshit is the outgoing MLA.

    Rajrejeshwar Singh, who has taken voluntary retirement after being deputed to the Enforcement Directorate from the Uttar Pradesh police, has been fielded from Sarojini Nagar, the seat of outgoing minister Swati Singh.

    Each Swati Singh and her husband Daya Shankar Singh were vying for the Sarojini Nagar seat.

    Incumbent Lucknow (central) MLA and minister Brijesh Pathak has been fielded from Lucknow Cantonment, burying speculations of the brand new entrant within the BJP Aparna Yadav, the daughter-in-law of SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav, being fielded from there.

    Aparna Yadav had contested from the seat within the earlier elections however had confronted defeat. In step with the BJP’s listing, state minister Ashutosh Tandon will contest from his Lucknow east seat.

  • Uttar Pradesh polls: Akhilesh Yadav has circle of relatives belongings price over Rs 40 crore

    By way of PTI

    MANIPURI: Samajwadi Birthday party leader Akhilesh Yadav, his spouse Dimple, and their daughter personal belongings price over Rs 40.14 crore, whilst the couple does no longer have any automobile, in step with the ballot affidavit of the previous leader minister.

    Yadav’s rival candidate from the Karhal meeting constituency, the BJP’s SP Singh Baghel, has declared circle of relatives belongings price Rs 8.75 crore.

    The SP leader’s affidavit additionally finds that he owns an workout gadget price over Rs 5.34 lakh and a telephone costing Rs 76,015.

    Yadav, who filed his nomination papers from the Karhal meeting constituency in Mainpuri district on Monday, does no longer personal any firearm, whilst Baghel has a rifle and a revolver.

    As consistent with the election affidavits of the 2 leaders, the gross price of belongings of Yadav, his spouse, and daughter Aditi stands at over Rs 40.14 crore, as in comparison to over Rs 8.75 crore of SP Singh Baghel and his circle of relatives — spouse Madhu and son Parth.

    Dimple Yadav has a pc price Rs 1.25 lakh, gold adorns weighing over 2,774 grams, and diamonds price Rs 59,76,687, the affidavit stated. The Yadav couple does no longer personal any automobile, in step with the affidavit.

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    The whole movable belongings of Yadav are price greater than Rs 8.43 crore, whilst that of Dimple is over Rs 4.76 crore.

    The circle of relatives’s movable belongings are price over Rs 13.30 crore. Yadav has immovable belongings price over Rs 17.22 crore, whilst Dimple has immovable belongings price over Rs 9.61 crore. The whole price in their immovable belongings is over Rs 26.83 crore. The SP leader has a legal responsibility of over Rs 28.97 lakh, whilst his spouse has a legal responsibility of Rs over 14.26 lakh.

    As consistent with the election affidavit, Yadav has loaned greater than Rs 2.13 crore to his father Mulayam Singh Yadav; whilst Dimple has given over Rs 8.15 lakh to her husband.

    The whole movable belongings of SP Singh Baghel (and his spouse and son) stand at over Rs 84 lakh — Rs 45.94 lakh belongs to Baghel, over Rs 25.91 lakh to Madhu, and greater than Rs 12.14 lakh to Parth.

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    The whole immovable assets of the Union minister stands at over Rs 7.91 crore. Recently, the 61-year-old Baghel, who’s the Lok Sabha MP from Agra (SC), is the Union Minister of State for Regulation and Justice.

    Baghel has no liabilities on him, whilst his spouse has a legal responsibility of over Rs 63.33 lakh, in step with the election affidavit.

    The union minister in his election affidavit has stated that he has 3 circumstances pending in court docket in opposition to him, whilst Yadav has one FIR registered in opposition to him, and no case is pending in opposition to him.