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UP Assembly elections: BJP MLA Jitendra Verma resigns from party

He claimed that BJP workers and MLAs have no say in the party

Col Vijay Rawat, Bipin Rawat's younger brother, not to contest UP polls

Gen Bipin Rawat's younger brother Col (retd) Vijay Rawat, who recently joined the BJP, on Sunday said he is not contesting the upcoming assembly polls in Uttarakhand. Col Rawat said he was asked by party leaders to contest but he said no to them. Asked what if they insist on fielding him, he said 99 per cent chances are that he would politely refuse. "I am not contesting the polls. I am interested only in serving the people of Uttarakhand," Col Rawat said in an interview to PTI. Joining the BJP less than a month ahead of the state assembly polls had given rise to speculation in the media that he might be given a ticket by the party. "My purpose behind joining the BJP was serving people and not holding an office or a post. During my 34 years in the Army I was transferred to different places. I didn't get a chance to serve people of my own state. Now that I am retired I can do that," he said. "I don't want to be tied up to a post. I want to serve people freely," he said. Col Rawat

Congress leaders Praveen Singh, Supriya Aron join Samajwadi Party

Former Congress MP from Bareilly Praveen Singh and Congress leader and former Bareilly Mayor Supriya Aron joined Samajwadi Party

UP assembly polls: Shivpal Singh Yadav to contest from Jaswant Nagar

Shivpal Singh Yadav will contest the assembly election from Jaswant Nagar in Uttar Pradesh as a candidate of the Samajwadi Party-Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) alliance. Jaswant Nagar in Etawah district will vote in the third phase on February 20. Yadav, who heads the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), currently represents the constituency in the assembly. In a tweet in Hindi, the Samajwadi Party said, "Shivpal Singh Yadav ji will be the candidate of SP and PSP alliance from Jaswant Nagar assembly seat of Etawah." Shivpal Singh Yadav had got into a tussle with his nephew and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and formed the Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) before the last assembly polls in 2017. In december last, they announced an alliance for the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh to be held in seven phases between February 10 and March 7. The results will be announced on March 10.

UP polls: Anurag Thakur, Yogi Adityanath flag off BJP's 'Prachar Rath'

Union Minister Anurag Thakur, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath along with other BJP leaders on Saturday flagged off "Prachar Rath" (election campaign vans) from the party office in Lucknow

UP polls: BJP fields Mulayam Singh Yadav's relative from Sirsaganj seat

Mulayam Singh Yadav's close relative Hariom Yadav, who recently switched sides from Samajwadi Party to BJP, will contest the upcoming assembly polls in the state from his current seat of Sirsaganj

State polls: Plane charters lose out to FB, Google as campaigns go digital

Flight charter companies have been badly hit by bans on physical rallies even as Big Tech eyes greater footfalls from digital political campaigns

BJP names 85 UP candidates; Aditi Singh from Rae Bareli, Arun from Kannauj

The list also includes incumbent MLA Hariom Yadav, a distant relative of Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav

After joining BJP, Aparna Yadav takes 'blessing' of Mulayam Singh Yadav

After joining the BJP in New Delhi, Aparna Bisht Yadav returned to Lucknow and took blessings of her father-in-law and SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav

UP Assembly polls: Aam Aadmi Party gives 4th guarantee to farmers

The Aam Aadmi Party has announced its fourth 'Kejriwal Guarantee' under which it said that all farmers' loans will be waived and all cane dues will be cleared within 24 hours of it forming the govt

20 candidates file nomination from 5 assembly seats of Mathura

The five assembly seats falling within the Mathura Lok Sabha constituency are Mathura, Goverdhan, Baldeo, Mant and Chatta

Mulayam Singh Yadav's brother-in-law Pramod Gupta set to join BJP today

A day after Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), his brother-in-law and former SP leader Pramod Gupta is set to join the BJP

UP Assembly polls: Congress releases second list of 41 candidates

The Congress on Thursday released its second list of 41 candidates, including 16 women, for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections starting February 10

UP Assembly polls: AIMIM announces third list of seven candidates

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Wednesday released the third list of candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

BJP will bag over 300 seats in UP Assembly polls, says Sandeep Singh

Sandeep Singh, grandson of former UP CM Kalyan Singh, filed nomination from 73 Atrauli constituency and said that BJP would get over 300 seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

UP polls: Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joins BJP

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the BJP on Wednesday. She joined the party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and and its state chief Swatantra Dev Singh. She is married to Prateek Yadav, son of Mulayam Singh Yadav's second wife while SP president Akhilesh Yadav is his son from the first marriage. Aparna Yadav said she has always been impressed with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and added that the nation's interest has always been her priority. There had been much speculation about her joining the BJP, and the development highlights the rift in the SP's ruling family at a time when Akhilesh Yadav has been working to rally the party's base in the run up to the state assembly polls. The BJP may field her in the polls, sources said. Aparna Yadav had contested the 2017 assembly polls on the Samajwadi Party ticket from Lucknow Cantt but had lost to BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi, now a Lok Sabha ..

BJP to finalise candidates for Assembly polls at CEC meeting today

BJP will finalise the names of candidates for the Assembly elections to Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Goa in the Central Election Committee (CEC) meeting today

Akhilesh Yadav will contest Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections: Report

Former UP CM and Samajwadi Party president chief will contest Assembly elections, party sources said

UP polls: SP's Aparna Yadav set to join BJP, to meet party chief today

Aparna Yadav, daughter-in-law of former state chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, is set to join the Bharatiya Janata Party

Mamata Banerjee to campaign for Samajwadi Party in UP poll : Nanda

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will campaign for Samajwadi Party in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly poll, SP vice-president Kiranmay Nanda said on Tuesday.