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Updated On: 29 Jun 2023 | 10:56 AM IST

Samajwadi Party candidate Dimple Yadav is leading in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency, while RLD and BJP candidates are leading in the Khatauli and the Rampur Sadar seats respectively, according to trends for the bypolls in Uttar Pradesh. While in Mainpuri, Yadav has taken a lead of over 15,000 votes over her nearest rival BJP candidate Raghuraj Singh Shakya, RLD candidate Madan Bhaiya is leading by over 1,000 votes in Khatauli over BJP's Rajkumar Saini, the Election Commission website showed. Samajwadi Party candidate Asim Raja is leading from Rampur Sadar, while BJP's Akash Saxena his trailing, source said. The bypoll on these seats were held on Dec 5.

Updated On: 08 Dec 2022 | 9:58 AM IST

Ahead of the December 5 bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party on Saturday submitted a memorandum to the state chief electoral officer seeking action to stop fake voting, while the BJP has approached the official, alleging that its rival is "threatening" people. While the Samajwadi Party (SP) in a memorandum has sought concrete action to safeguard against fake voting in the Rampur Sadar assembly segment, the BJP has urged the chief electoral officer (CEO) to put a check on "anarchic elements" of its rivals in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. The Uttar Pradesh BJP in a statement said the party's state general secretary JPS Rathore has written to the CEO mentioning a "list of miscreants in the Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency and demanded strict action against them". In its letter, the ruling party in the state has also demanded tight security at highly sensitive polling booths to prevent miscreants from capturing them. The BJP has alleged that the Model Code of Conduct has

Updated On: 04 Dec 2022 | 7:28 AM IST

UP AIMIM president Shaukat Ali said that the party will contest all the seats in future elections in the state, while also claiming that many SP leaders will join in the future

Updated On: 10 Oct 2022 | 8:38 AM IST

Union minister Jitendra Singh asserted on Tuesday that the BJP will win the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in the 2024 parliamentary election. Talking to reporters here, Singh said, "We are going to win the Mainpuri seat in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls and our target is to win all the 80 parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh." The Union minister's reply came to a reporter's question on whether the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat in the next general election. At present, Mainpuri is represented by Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav in the Lok Sabha. In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had won 62 seats in Uttar Pradesh, while its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) had won two seats. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had won 10 seats, the SP had won five and the Congress had won one seat. Singh said over the last eight years, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's welfare schemes have reached everyone, without any vote-bank consideration. Addressing back-to-back meet

Updated On: 31 Aug 2022 | 7:40 AM IST

Senior SP legislator Azam Khan and sulking socialist leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Sunday skipped the party MLAs' meet ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly session. Shivpal had earlier too skipped the party MLAs' meeting amid differences with his nephew and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. Shivpal had parted ways with Akhilesh in 2017 Assembly polls and had formed his own outfit, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party-Lohia. He, however, contested this year's Assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party symbol. Azam Khan, who was released for the Sitapur jail on Friday after the Supreme Court granted him bail in a cheating case, didn't attend the meeting due to health reasons, according to a party leader. However, Khan was seen visiting the district jail in Rampur with his son Abdullah Azam to meet his supporters lodged there in various cases. Earlier, people close to Khan had accused the party chief of ignoring him and the Muslim community, sparking speculations of a rift in the ...

Updated On: 22 May 2022 | 5:15 PM IST

Russia said that it would focus on completely 'liberating' eastern Ukraine's Donbass region

Updated On: 25 Mar 2022 | 9:04 PM IST

The Centre should consider reviving the scrapped farm laws but only after involving the states

Updated On: 22 Mar 2022 | 10:59 PM IST

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Saturday rejected the suggestion of AIMIM for an alliance with Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA)

Updated On: 19 Mar 2022 | 4:14 PM IST

Even before the din over the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections subsides, political parties are gearing up for the legislative council elections.

Updated On: 16 Mar 2022 | 10:47 AM IST

A struggling and demoralised Congress cannot hope to crystallise an Opposition challenge to the Prime Minister in the run up to 2024 elections.

Updated On: 14 Mar 2022 | 10:04 AM IST

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Updated On: 13 Mar 2022 | 4:51 PM IST

Live news: BJP wins four of five Assembly elections, setting the tone for the general election two years from now.

Updated On: 11 Mar 2022 | 10:36 PM IST

The Congress, which has been out of power for three decades, plunged into further wilderness in the state, winning just two seats.

Updated On: 11 Mar 2022 | 8:08 AM IST

As many as 11 ministers in the Yogi Adityanath government failed to win in the 2022 assembly elections, despite the BJP registering an impressive victory.

Updated On: 11 Mar 2022 | 7:35 AM IST

The main opposition party in Uttar Pradesh, the Samajwadi Party (SP), posted a good performance (111 seats, up from 47) but was nowhere near the midway mark

Updated On: 11 Mar 2022 | 2:27 AM IST

According to the Election Commission website, deputy chief minister and BJP candidate from Sirathu Keshav Prasad Maurya lost to the Samajwadi Party's Pallavi Patel by 7,337 votes.

Updated On: 11 Mar 2022 | 1:20 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised the government's economic measures and social welfare steps had put India on track in these circumstances

Updated On: 11 Mar 2022 | 12:02 AM IST

In Assembly Elections 2022, Modi has become a colossus Indian politics hasn't seen, Kejriwal has established a new politics of his own kind, and Yogi is the leader to watch

Updated On: 10 Mar 2022 | 11:24 PM IST

Election Results 2022 highlights: Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur have voted for BJP. Meanwhile, AAP won a landslide mandate in Punjab.

Updated On: 10 Mar 2022 | 11:18 PM IST