As the street battle erupted, Mulayam Singh Yadav and Chief Minister Mayawati traded charges with the SP chief accusing the police of targeting his party workers at her behest and the BSP supremo charging SP with fomenting trouble in league with criminals.
He promised a grand city inspired by Cambodia's sprawling Angkor Wat, in the state if his party comes to power.
Here's a recap of events that occurred in India in the past 24 hours.
The latest round may have gone against him, but the chief minister is planning his counter-attack.
The two-and-a-half-year-old boy had gone out with a servant in the evening and did not return home, police said.
The poll panel has thrown an unprecedented security blanket over Kanpur, the chief minister's stronghold.
Shobha Ram is among the estimated 100,000 beggars who roam the streets of Delhi.
More than a dozen police teams have been deployed in the Chambal ravines.
In Bharatana, the Samajwadi Party chief seems to have an easy ride.
The locusts initially entered Rajasthan from Pakistan and from there the swarms moved towards Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab over the last few weeks and are now threatening to enter Uttar Pradesh, putting at risk the summer crop.
Given the controversy over Uttar Pradesh's population control moves, Hemant Shivsaran/Rediff.com digs deep to find out how many children BJP MLAs in UP have.
More disappointing was Rahul's 10-minute speech as he repeated all his old phrases and had nothing new to say to the assembled people.
Who would be footing bill for what was supposedly a "family affair" could be anybody's guess.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party presdient Mulayam Singh Yadav Tuesday said his party would move a no confidence motion in the Lok Sabha against the United Progressive Alliance government over the Iran issue.
The pradhan gave correct information about the whereabouts of Gujjar, which enabled the STF team to track him.
'Favourable treatment to selected areas has been a pattern throughout the state.'
The boy had been knocked down by a vehicle near Karpur Gate in Anekal on Sunday evening and when his father, a migrant labourer from Assam, took him to the Anekal government hospital, he was declared "brought dead", police said.
Police said the gangster snatched a pistol from one of the policemen injured in the accident and was shot when he opened fire while trying to flee.
A 20-year-old girl, who was allegedly gang-raped and set afire by a youth and his associates in Desarmau village under Ekdil police station area in Etawah, succumbed to her injuries at a hospital in Saifi.
Irfan, who represented Bilari assembly seat, was on his way to attend the marriage of son of senior cabinet minister Shivpal Singh Yadav in Saifai in Etawah district when his vehicle overturned and fell into a ditch on Thursday.
There was no relief for the national capital, with the mercury crossing the 44C mark in some parts of the city.
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The fourth phase of the Lok Sabha elections will go to polls on April 29. The voting will be held for 71 seats spread across 9 states.
The attack occurred when Kamlesh Pathak had gone to settle a land dispute in Bhind district in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.
Shyama Nair said her father disappeared from a train near Etawah in Uttar Pradesh while travelling to Delhi from Varanasi with the family.
SP veteran Mulayam Singh Yadav claimed that there was "no discord".
A Dalit woman, who was allegedly gang-raped a few days back, committed suicide by setting herself ablaze, prompting her family and Bahujan Samaj Party workers to stage a violent protest in Sikandarau area in Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.
PM Modi, BJP president J P Nadda, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal have all expressed grief over the incident.
In what may be seen as a message to the electorate that he has a say in the party, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday inducted three Cabinet and two Ministers of State (Independent Charge) ahead of next year's assembly elections in the state.
Nothing has been done for Dalits in the last four years, Nagina MP Yashwant Singh wrote in a letter to the PM.
The water level rose above the danger mark in Haridwar and Delhi and the level at Bhakra dam was a foot above the permissible mark.
The deadlock in the Samajwadi Party on Saturday showed no signs of easing with warring factions led by Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and his father Mulayam Singh Yadav failing to reach any agreement despite fresh confabulations.
He also claimed that corrupt persons and officials had joined hands with the government during the previous regime when Akhilesh was the chief minister and the same thing was happening in the present dispensation.
The Samajwadi Party stormed to the power with 224 of the 403 assembly seats.
SP has fielded Shivpal from Jaswant Nagar seat in Etawah district.
'Should the Congress take Jyotiraditya's departure as good riddance?', asks Mohammad Sajjad.
Live coverage of a cultural extravaganza in Etawah in the ancestral Saifai village of Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav has been prohibited by the district administration.
The Samajwadi Party leadership in Uttar Pradesh came under attack on Sunday over holding the annual festival of song and dance at the Yadav family's native village at a time when hundreds of victims of Muzaffarnagar riots were living in difficult circumstances in relief camps.
Officials of the Transport Department, bus drivers and conductors were contacted on Friday night to help the people who were stranded in Noida, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahar and Aligarh, among other places, he said.
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