Joining hands with smaller parties with a political base in different castes was a part of the BJP strategy as it won big in Uttar Pradesh in the 2017 assembly polls and 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
UP CM said 'it does not matter who built it and for what reason; it was built by blood and sweat of Indian labourers'.
If the BJP is set to return to power in UP, Uttarakhand, Manipur and even Goa, it is not because of the party's performance or the quality of governance. No. It is essentially Modi's popularity, observes Virendra Kapoor.
Glimpses from all the action from the campaign trail.
A departmental notice dated December 15, 2020, stated that the cooperation of officers and employees of the directorate general will be needed during the proposed coronavirus vaccination.
The CM recently instructed officials to prepare a roadmap for providing local jobs to about two million people, especially in the rural-based industries, such as khadi, dairy, and food processing units and MSMEs.
Sacking Ajay Mishra would further antagonise Brahmins in UP already upset with Yogi's government.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister and former state BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya had also dropped a hint in a recent tweet, saying Yaduvanshi (Yadavs), Ravidasiyo (Jatavs) and Pasmanda Muslims will be brought closer to the BJP so that the lotus 'blossoms' in every booth in UP.
'The country has moved beyond the likes of Yogi Adityanath and his medieval thinking. The results of the by-elections are early warning signals by impatient Indians. It's up to the BJP to learn its lesson or face the consequences,' says Ashutosh.
As per Centre's standard operating procedures, sanitisers were kept at the entrance while masks and social distancing was compulsory for the devotees. Some places of worship also conducted thermal screening of all devotees.
The six months include the three months already spent in detention. The NSA allows preventive detention for up to a year.
Later, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that the state will order a Central Bureau of Investigation probe.
Take a look at the famous faces who exercised their democratic right.
Nation Live editor Anshul Kaushik was arrested on Monday and remanded in 14-day judicial custody.
The Uttar Pradesh police on Thursday arrested five people, including a man who they claimed to be the personal secretary of former minister Swami Prasad Maurya, for allegedly duping unemployed youth on the pretext of giving them government jobs.
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday attacked the Uttar Pradesh government over the death of a Kanpur businessman in a police raid, claiming that the case is linked to an extortion racket and "someone" is trying to save himself.
The officer said UP unit chief of Antarrashtriya Hindu Mahasabha, Ranjeet Bachchan, died on the spot after being hit by a bullet
The Congress accused Yogi Adityanath of withdrawing cases of heinous crimes such as rioting in Muzaffarnagar on religious lines.
Modi also alleged the opposition grouping will end the reservation given to SC, ST, OBC and give all of it to Muslims.
This dictatorial attitude with the help of police will not be tolerated, Yadav said.
'Our train was moving in all the wrong directions and went to Jharkhand, Bihar, West Bengal and Odisha'
A week in the office and the Uttar Pradesh chief minister was at it in full throttle.
Kumar said that even the driver had received multiple fractures as well as a head injury. His condition is very critical, he added.
The stage is set for Narendra Modi's rally on the outskirts of Gorakhpur on Thursday, with the Bharatiya Janata Party claiming that it will be the "greatest of all" rally addressed by the party's prime ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh so far.
Amid a raging row over alleged forced reconversions in Agra, a Hindu organisation has announced its plan to "convert a large number of people" on December 25, which was welcomed by a local Bharatiya Janata Party MP who said people are within their rights to choose their religion.
Within four years of winning a single party majority in the Lok Sabha with 282 seats -- the first time it has happened in 30 years -- the BJP has lost it.
As their parties are locked in a fierce battle for Bengal, Tathagata and Saugata Roy, siblings who belong to the BJP and the TMC respectively, answer the same questions put to them about the assembly election.
'The incidents that used to happen in our time, have they stopped now?' 'Can you imagine they made an acid attack victim consume acid? And when did this happen?' 'When the CM was inspecting the thana...' 'History tells us that a party does not remain in power permanently.' 'Finally, they will have to deliver.'
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Ram Iqbal Singh on Thursday accused Union minister Ajay Mishra of being behind the Lakhimpur violence and sought his sacking from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
'The tally of Muslim MLAs has increased. They know they can make themselves count in the electoral system.'
The Uttar Pradesh government on Thursday issued a provisional list of reserved seats for mayors of municipal corporations, and chairpersons of municipal councils and nagar panchayats for the three-tier urban elections.
Nishad said he will meet senior BJP leaders, including Amit Shah, in Delhi on Monday to finalise the constituencies where the party will field its candidates.
The incident is linked to the elopement of a local BJP worker's daughter.
Fifteen persons were killed and more than 35 others injured, some of them seriously, after an Uttar Pradesh-bound bus collided with a stationary truck in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, an official said on Saturday.
"The situation has already improved in Gorakhpur and it would soon improve in the state as well," he said.
SP leader Akhilesh Yadav has successfully poached a number of OBC leaders from the ruling party, including Swami Prasad Maurya, in his efforts to broaden his party's social base beyond the traditional Muslim and Yadav votebank to take it on this time round.
While a few 'bahubalis' managed wins in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a majority of them were rejected by the voters. According to the results, many alleged dons-turned-politicians failed to make it to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.
The BSP is contesting on 20 seats in Karnataka election with an alliance with Janata Dal-Secular while the SP is contesting on 27 on its own.
Why 'anti-Romeo'? Why not 'anti-loafer' squad? Or 'anti-Majnu' squad?' wonders Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
The move, said UP minister Siddharth Nath Singh, will help highlight Indian culture at international level.
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