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  • Madhya Pradesh guy amongst 3 held with over Rs 23 lakh ‘unaccounted’ money in poll-bound UP

    By means of PTI

    NOIDA: The police in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam Buddh Nagar district have seized over Rs 23 lakh “unaccounted money” from 3 males, together with a Madhya Pradesh resident, in separate incidents, officers mentioned on Sunday.

    The seizure comes amid heightened safety tests throughout Noida and Higher Noida — which proportion borders with Delhi and Haryana — because of the approaching meeting polls within the state, starting February 10.

    “Officers of the Sector 39 police station and the Static Surveillance Group (SST) intercepted a automobile round 11.30 pm on Saturday. The automobile occupant used to be discovered wearing Rs 20 lakh in money however may just now not provide paperwork or ample reaction in regards to the massive amount of money,” a police spokesperson mentioned.

    The occupant has been known as Syed Kausar Abbas, a resident of Hyde Park society in Noida Sector 78 whilst the automobile is registered in Delhi, the police mentioned.

    One after the other, officers of the Beta 2 police station officers and the SST intercepted two automobiles in Higher Noida early on Sunday, getting better over Rs 3 lakh unaccounted money from their occupants.

    “Pramod Chauhan, a resident of Wajidpur in Noida, used to be held after Rs 2.94 lakh used to be present in his automobile, registered in Gautam Buddh Nagar. Within the different incident, Saurabh Parmar, a resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Morena district, used to be discovered with 88,000 money in his Mahindra Scorpio. Each may just now not provide paperwork or ample reaction in regards to the money,” the police respectable mentioned.

    The automobiles were impounded in all 3 instances whilst the occupants had been launched after wondering and felony court cases were initiated to determine if the money is connected to the approaching polls, in keeping with officers.

    The police in Gautam Buddh Nagar have to this point seized round Rs 2 crore unaccounted money and impounded over part a dozen automobiles over identical fees.

  • BJP, Samajwadi Birthday party giving casteist color to Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls: BSP leader Mayawati

    Via PTI

    LUCKNOW: BSP president Mayawati on Friday accused the BJP and Samajwadi Birthday party of colluding to provide a communal and casteist color to the Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections. In a tweet, the BSP supremo additionally cautioned the folks towards their designs.

    यूपी विधानसभा चुनाव में जिस प्रकार से धर्म व जाति की राजनीति हावी है व मीडिया में भी ऐसी ख़बरें भरी पड़ी रहती हैं उससे ऐसा लगता है कि यह सब सपा व बीजेपी की अन्दरुनी मिलीभगत के तहत ही हो रहा है और वे चुनाव को हिन्दू-मुस्लिम व जातीय नफरती रंग देना चाहती हैं। जनता सतर्क रहे।

    — Mayawati (@Mayawati) January 28, 2022

    “The best way faith and caste politics dominate within the UP meeting elections and the media could also be filled with such information, it appear that every one this is occurring as SP and BJP are colluding to provide the elections color of hatred on Hindu-Muslim and casteist strains. Other folks wish to stay alert,” the previous Uttar Pradesh leader minister stated.

    ALSO READ| BSP releases listing of applicants for fourth section of polls

    Polls in Uttar Pradesh will probably be held in seven stages starting February 10.

  • Just right that Yogi Adityanth is not BJP’s Ayodhya candidate: Ram Temple leader priest

    Via PTI

    AYODHYA: The manager priest of the Ram Temple right here on Monday mentioned it’s excellent that Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath isn’t contesting the state Meeting polls from this seat as he would have confronted numerous opposition.

    When requested why he steered that Adityanath must to not contest from Ayodhya, Acharya Satyendra Das mentioned he recommended this “after asking Ram Lalla (Lord Ram)”.

    Das mentioned that he steered that Adityanath must contest from Gorakhpur as other people whose properties and retail outlets have been demolished right here because of infrastructure tasks within the wake of the development of the temple have been opposing him.

    “It is excellent that Leader Minister Yogi Adityanath isn’t contesting from right here. I had steered it previous and recommended that it’s going to be higher that he contest from any seat of Gorakhpur. I talk after asking Ram Lalla. I spoke with Ram Lalla’s inspiration,” mentioned Das, who’s the manager priest of the makeshift Ram Lalla temple, which is being changed by way of a grand temple.

    The 84-year-old priest mentioned that the seers listed here are divided of their opinion and the ones whose properties and retail outlets have been demolished are in opposition to him. “All are pronouncing that it is his paintings. This opposition is there. I mentioned he higher cross there (Gorakhpur). He would have received from right here however may have confronted issues,” the priest mentioned.

    There used to be a powerful buzz in political circles that Adityanath would input the fray from Ayodhya however the BJP management determined to box him from the Gorakhpur (City) Meeting section. In regards to the election temper in Ayodhya, Das mentioned it isn’t but transparent as all events have no longer declared their applicants.

    The priest, alternatively, mentioned the ruling BJP is not going to let cross the Ram temple factor and it’s going to stay on their time table. “Previous, there used to be Ram Lalla andolan, then got here the courtroom’s order and the development of the Ram temple began. This Ram temple factor won’t ever cross away. They’ll say firing used to be opened right here (on ‘kar sewaks’), utility used to be moved within the courtroom to forestall the development – however the temple building is on. They’ll unquestionably take the identify (of Ram temple). This is not going to cross away,” Das mentioned.

    Das was hoping to look the finished Ram temple in his lifetime. “Let’s have a look at what number of days it takes for the development to finish. A majority of those that have been with me have long past (passed on to the great beyond),” Das mentioned, including that he’ll be serving right here until his remaining.

    Das mentioned he joined because the priest of the makeshift Ram Lalla temple in 1992, the 12 months the Babri mosque used to be demolished.

    When requested if he used to be provide when the mosque used to be demolished, Das mentioned, “I used to be there. It took place earlier than me. I used to be witness to it. Out of 3 domes, north and south domes have been demolished by way of ‘kar sewaks’. I took Ram Lalla with its throne in my hand. The demolition used to be over by way of 5 pm. Later, ‘kar sewaks’ pitched a tent and levelled where and by way of 7 pm, I saved Ram Lalla there.”

    When requested whether or not native politicians have began coming to him to take his blessings, Das mentioned, “Until now, spouse of Samajwadi Birthday party chief Pawan Pandey has come to me. He is a robust candidate from the SP.”

    Pawan Pandey had received the 2012 Meeting elections from Ayodhya and used to be made a minister within the earlier Akhilesh Yadav govt. In 2017, BJP’s Ved Prakash Gupta received the Ayodhya seat. All 5 Meeting seats within the district–Ayodhya, Bikapur, Rudauli, Gosaiganj and Milkipur—are held by way of the BJP now.

    Ayodhya will cross to the polls within the 5th segment on February 27.

  • Inner rift inside JDU widens in run-up to ​Uttar Pradesh polls

    Via IANS

    PATNA: After failing to sew an alliance with BJP in Uttar Pradesh, the highest management of Janata Dal-United (JD-U) has began focused on Union Minister R.C.P. Singh.

    Singh, a minister within the Modi cupboard, is claimed to have shut hyperlinks with BJP most sensible management in spite of him turning into union minister below JD-U quota. The celebration had given him duty to make an alliance with the BJP for UP polls, however he failed.

    JD-U nationwide president Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh has already mentioned that the extend in announcement of the applicants for Uttar Pradesh elections is because of R.C.P Singh.

    For the closing couple of days, JD-U’s junior leaders are advocating for R.C.P. Singh to steer the celebration within the election marketing campaign of Uttar Pradesh. They have got identified that Singh who was once a former IAS officer and served in Uttar Pradesh for a very long time, understands the bottom scenario higher there.

    “The theory is to deliver Singh face-to-face with most sensible BJP management, particularly PM Narendra Modi and House Minister Amit Shah all the way through the election marketing campaign. This will likely bitter the connection of RCP Singh with BJP management,” mentioned an authentic of the RJD soliciting for anonymity.

    Bihar CM Nitish Kumar had given duty to R.C.P. Singh to barter with BJP all the way through the second one enlargement of the Narendra Modi govt closing 12 months. JD-U sought after two cupboard ministers and two state ministers within the union council of ministers however Singh permitted only one cupboard minister publish for himself below JD-U quota which antagonised leaders within the rank of Lalan Singh, Upendra Kushwaha and others.

    Alternatively, R.C.P. Singh has no longer but reacted to the advance. His authentic twitter deal with may be silent nowadays.

    The JD-U has shortlisted 51 applicants and 26 of them were introduced up to now. Those 26 applicants are contesting on the ones seats the place BJP is both having robust cling or having sitting MLAs.

  • Dangerous highway situation: Citizens of village, city locality threaten to boycott Uttar Pradesh polls

    By means of PTI

    ETAH: Livid over the situation of roads, citizens of a village and an city locality in Uttar Pradesh’s Etah Sadar constituency have warned of boycotting subsequent month’s meeting elections, with officers saying that they’re going to get to the bottom of their issues.

    The Etah Sadar seat is represented by means of BJP’s Vipin Verma David and he has been once more fielded by means of the birthday celebration.

    Polling for the seat will likely be hung on February 20 within the 3rd of the seven segment elections.

    Citizens of Kulla Habibpur village, which has a inhabitants of one,000, staged a protest on Friday and raised slogans equivalent to “highway nahin toh vote nahin (no highway no vote)”.

    When it rains, roads are flooded and it reasons a lot problem for villagers to hold out with their day-to-day actions, Parmod Kumar, an area, advised journalists.

    Additionally, with huge potholes, a number of other people have met with injuries, he mentioned, including that citizens have complained to officers and public representatives a number of occasions however to no avail.

    Both the village will boycott the polls or vote for the candidate who will get it repaired, Kumar mentioned.

    On the Etah district headquarters, citizens of Kanshi Ram colony complained about waterlogging on roads and introduced that they’re going to boycott the polls if their drawback isn’t resolved In addition they held a protest with a banner saying their determination.

    Sub-Divisional Justice of the Peace, Sadar, Shiv Kumar Singh mentioned citizens of Kashi Ram Colony had staged a protest over the issue of waterlogging and also are speaking about boycotting the election.

    “I’ve despatched the tehsildar to appear into their drawback which will likely be resolved quickly,” the SDM mentioned, including that he has additionally come to understand concerning the complaint of citizens of Kulla Habibpur village as of late.

    “The tehsildar and I will be able to get the topic investigated and can get to the bottom of the issue,” he added.

  • Fight for ​Uttar Pradesh: Aligarh Muslim College panel places out ‘constitution’ for political events

    By means of IANS

    ALIGARH: The coordination committee of Uttar Pradesh state government frame of the Aligarh Muslim College (AMU) has handed a 15-point solution as a constitution of ‘Muslim problems’ and sought its inclusion within the election manifesto of political events.

    The committee has additionally sought an assurance of the implementation of the problems.

    Within the solution handed by way of the committee, comprising over 100 individuals together with coaching, non-teaching body of workers, scholars and alumni, it demanded rapid investigation and unencumber of blameless individuals framed beneath the Illegal Actions (Prevention) Act and Nationwide Safety Act.

    It additionally demanded repayment and rehabilitation of sufferers who had been falsely implicated by way of safety businesses and subjected to extended incarceration and critical torture, however discovered blameless and acquitted by way of courts of legislation.

    The solution additional demanded enactment of complete anti-communal and anti-hate crime legislation with the supply of ‘stringent punishment and rapid trial and formation of a role power having good enough illustration of stakeholders for vigilance of harassment and atrocities on minorities’.

    The committee stated the election is a very powerful for the group, having been subjected to “systematic harassment by way of the communally-biased ruling dispensation and upset by way of the silence of all secular events which had loved energy because of their electoral give a boost to”.

  • BJP leaders quitting in Uttar Pradesh as they’re bored stiff with dictatorship: Sushil Kumar Shinde

    Via PTI

    PUNE: Taking a veiled swipe at Uttar Pradesh leader minister Yogi Adityanath, Congress veteran Sushil Kumar Shinde on Saturday stated that many leaders are quitting the BJP and becoming a member of different events forward of elections as they’re bored stiff with “dictatorship”.

    Chatting with journalists, he stated Congress gets votes from positive sections within the upcoming UP polls whilst he downplayed a question on why leaders strolling out of the ruling BJP fold are who prefer the Samajwadi Birthday celebration (SP) over Congress.

    Responding to a question, the previous Union house minister stated there used to be no breach within the safety of top minister Narendra Modi all the way through his fresh consult with to poll-bound Punjab.

    When requested concerning the PM’s observation after the alleged safety breach, Shinde stated, “I don’t believe there’s any breach within the PM’s safety. They (the PM and his safety body of workers) will have to have requested quite a lot of businesses earlier than leaving for the serve as (in Punjab). The intelligence is to be had 24 hours earlier than…How did they cross there? Now, they’re accusing Congress of politics”.

    Shinde stated it did not topic if some leaders from BJP in Uttar Pradesh are becoming a member of SP and no longer Congress.

    “It’s not relevant which celebration they’re becoming a member of. Congress gets votes from positive sections in Uttar Pradesh. As they’re bored stiff with the dictatorship in BJP they’re becoming a member of different events in UP,” he alleged.

    “BJP’s days are over now. They’ve proved that they only communicate and do not anything. I feel they’re following the democratic means,” he stated when requested about leaders deserting BJP.

    Shinde stated terming farmers protesting for the withdrawal of 3 farm rules as “Khalistanis” used to be fallacious.

    “Those farmers had been protesting towards injustice. Their problems will have to were resolved previous, however the executive lacked the self-control to take action,” he alleged when requested concerning the farmers’ protests that had been withdrawn in final December after over a 12 months.

  • Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections: 2nd listing of seven RLD-SP applicants introduced

    Via PTI

    NOIDA: The alliance of the Rashtriya Lok Dal and Samajwadi Birthday celebration on Saturday introduced its 2nd listing of 7 applicants for the impending Uttar Pradesh meeting elections.

    All applicants are participants of the Jayant Chaudhary-led RLD, consistent with the listing shared by way of the birthday party on social media.

    The alliance has fielded Rajpal Baliyan from Budhana and Chandan Chauhan from Meerapur, each in Muzaffarnagar district, and Ashraf Ali from Thana Bhawan in Shamli.

    Surendra Kumar Munni has been fielded from Muradnagar in Ghaziabad district, Kiran Buddy Singh from Shikarpur in Bulandshahr, Pramod Gaur from Barauli and Birpal Singh Diwakar from Iglas, each in Aligarh.

    The entire seven seats, together with Iglas which is reserved for SC applicants, have been gained by way of BJP nominees within the 2017 polls.

    The seats will cross to polls on February 10 all over the primary section of elections within the state.

    The tie up had on Thursday introduced its first listing of 29 applicants of which 10 belonged to the SP and 19 to the RLD.

  • BJP suffers but some other blow in Uttar Pradesh as two MLAs of best friend Apna Dal (Sonelal) hand over birthday celebration

    Through PTI

    PRATAPGARH: Amid a spate of resignations from the BJP, two MLAs of its best friend Apna Dal (Sonelal) additionally hand over their birthday celebration Thursday in run-up to the meeting polls in Uttar Pradesh.

    Chaudhary Amar Singh, the MLA from Shohratgarh seat of Siddharthnagar, advised PTI that he has resigned from the birthday celebration after a gathering with Samajwadi Birthday celebration leader Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow this night.

    Singh is prone to contest from Shohratgarh seat on an SP price tag.

    Apna Dal (Sonelal) MLA RK Verma, who represents the Vishwanath Ganj seat of Pratapgarh, additionally introduced that he’s leaving the birthday celebration.

    He advised PTI that he’s going to officially surrender on Friday and elaborate the explanation why he used to be quitting the birthday celebration.

    Apna Dal (Sonelal), led by way of Union minister Anupriya Patel, had contested the 2017 meeting elections in alliance with the BJP.

    It had fielded applicants on 12 seats and gained 9.

    The advance comes within the backdrop of a spate of resignations from the ruling BJP.

    On Thursday, OBC chief Dharam Singh Saini turned into the 3rd minister to surrender from the Uttar Pradesh cupboard this week, giving but some other jolt to the ruling BJP within the run-up to the meeting polls.

    Hours earlier than Saini’s resignation, Shikohabad MLA Mukesh Verma introduced that he’s leaving the BJP.

    Many of the 8 MLAs, together with the ministers, who’ve declared they’re quitting all through the remaining 3 days are from the Different Backward Categories and seem to be headed against Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Birthday celebration.