SP and BSP workers created ruckus after a person entered the Mandi Committee of Mathura without an ID card where Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) have been kept
Apart from this, 10,233 arms, 10,582 cartridges, 232 explosives and 336 bombs were seized, while 186 factories manufacturing illegal weapons were busted by the police till March 7, the officer said
Yogi made the remarks in reference to the free ration and the vaccine provided by the Central government during the pandemic
Listing the works done by the incumbent BJP government, Shah said that they freed the state from the clutches of criminals and mafia
The SP and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have been defeated in the first five rounds of polling and now the BJP needs votes to ensure that it gets more than 300 seats, the home minister said
Priyanka Gandhi claimed the SP and the BSP have an understanding with the BJP in Uttar Pradesh and have not raised their voices against it in the last five years, fearing probes by central agencies
Addressing a series of meetings in the poll-bound state, he said the opposition parties are spreading hatred among communities to increase their votebank
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said the Uttar Pradesh elections are a fight between the dynasts and diehard nationalists, which the opposition parties do not understand. Addressing his second election rally of the day in Deoria, Modi attacked previous governments in Uttar Pradesh, saying they shut sugar mills and didn't clear dues of sugarcane farmers. Whereas the Yogi Adityanath government modernised sugar mills and facilitated ethanol blending, which fetched about Rs 12,000 crore for the state, the PM said. The Assembly constituencies in Deoria district will go to the polls in the sixth phase of the elections on March 3.
Voting for the fifth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls began on Sunday morning, with state Keshav Prasad Maurya among 692 candidates, who are contesting on 61 seats spread across 12 districts
Mayawati alleged that the BJP is only working on "narrow-minded" schemes of the RSS
Almost all parties have put OBC leaders at the helm of their campaigns and the last three phases will test their popularity
The speculation was triggered by a recent remark by Union Home Minister that Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party remained relevant in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls and will get Dalit votes
In an apparent dig at the Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party, he said, 'The BJP is real samajwadi as the meaning of samajwad is to free society from fear, hunger and corruption,'
Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati was among the first political leaders to cast her vote in Lucknow.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah targeted previous SP and BSP governments in Uttar Pradesh, alleging that they had turned the state into a bastion of terror and centre of riots.
Hitting out at rivals in an election rally in Uttar Pradesh's Bahraich, Modi said in the name of 'garibi hatao' and Samajwad (socialism), they looted the country
The BJP's double engine government is working to establish a 'Ram Rajya,' said CM Yogi Adityanath
BJP government did not give full benefit of BSP's schemes to the poor, labourers as well as Dalits, tribals, Other Backward Classes and minorities, said Mayawati
Assembly elections are being held in Uttar Pradesh from February 10 to March 7 in seven phases to elect all 403 members of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly
Lucknow district has nearly 3.8 million voters in the total population of more than 5.7 million