SP releases election manifesto, promises caste-based census

SP releases election manifesto, promises caste-based census

Thursday, 11 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

Endorsing the right based entitlement politics of the Congress, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday unveiled the party’s manifesto for the Lok Sabha elections, promising a caste based-census by 2025. Samajwadi Party and Congress are the constituent of the opposition block Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). The SP promises free...

PDM Nyay Morcha unlikely impact UP’s electoral politics

Wednesday, 10 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

PDM Nyaya Morcha, the third front representing the interests of ‘Pichda’, ‘Dalits’ and Muslims, remains a nonstarter and unlikely to have an impact in the electoral politics of Uttar Pradesh where the contest is largely between the BJP-led NDA and the INDIA bloc. Apna Dal (Kamerawadi), former ally of the Samajwadi...

BSP gives ticket to Balkrishna Chauhan from Ghosi

Wednesday, 10 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati denied the ticket to sitting Member of Parliament from Ghosi Atul Rai and instead gave it to Balkrishna Chauhan, former MP who left Congress and joined BSP only five days ago. Sources said that Chauhan was declared the candidate from Ghosi by BSP. The decision...

Kairana to witness tough fight

Tuesday, 09 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

The tug of war for the Kairana Lok Sabha seat, once in news for exodus of Hindus, is between the Bharatiya Janata Party and its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal on one side and Samajwadi Party and Congress on the other. Despite being a Muslim dominated constituency, the BJP had wrested the...

Ex-DGP, leaders of several parties join BJP in Lucknow

Tuesday, 09 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

The Bharatiya Janata Party got a boost on Monday when senior leaders from several political parties, including Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Congress, as well as former DGP Vijay Kumar joined the ruling party here on Tuesday in presence of Uttar Pradesh’s Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak. Among the prominent...

Priyanka to contest from Rae Bareli

Monday, 08 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

In an attempt to give a boost to the prospects of the party in the state and motivate the cadre which is already disheartened over the declining graph of the party in Uttar Pradesh having the maximum 80 Lok Sabha seats, Gandhi family scion Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has given her...

Akhilesh visits Mukhtar’s family in Ghazipur

Monday, 08 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, on Sunday, visited the family of deceased Mukhtar Ansari at his home in Ghazipur and said he hoped the truth of the death of the mafia-turned-politician would come out and the family would get justice. “It is shocking that Mukhtar Ansari himself made apprehensions that he...

Western UP set to witness keen contests

Monday, 08 April 2024 | PNS | Lucknow

Western Uttar Pradesh has played a pivotal role in deciding the electoral fortunes of Bharatiya Janata Party in the state during the last decade. Ever since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections followed by UP assembly polls in 2017 and 2022 and the last parliamentary elections in 2019, the opposition has...

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