Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls 2017 News
In his 20-minute long speech, though, Akhilesh refrained from naming Shivpal, but didn't mince his words in attacking him.
In the 73 constituencies where polling was held, SP and BSP had bagged 24 seats each in the 2012 polls, BJP 11, RLD nine and Congress five.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday exuded confidence that his father Mulayam Singh Yadav will campaign for the ruling Samajwadi Party during the crucial assembly elections in wake of reports that the SP patriarch is upset with the alliance between SP and Congress.
Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav has written a letter to the Prime Minister urging that people of Uttar Pradesh would suffer if the budgetary allocation is done before his state starts voting on February 11.
The Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance has ensured a fierce multi-cornered contest in Uttar Pradesh.
After sealing an alliance with the Samajwadi Party, the Congress party has now coined a new slogan to counter the rising might of Narendra Modi-powered BJP in Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav in his new role as Samajwadi Party national president will kick off his party's election campaign from Sultanpur on Tuesday, enthused after his victory in the power game within the Yadav clan.
Boost for Congress as Priyanka Gandhi signals her entry into politics after sealing alliance with SP
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's daughter Priyanka is set to play a key role in the crucial assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, say insiders after she successfully negotiated an electoral alliance with the ruling Samajwadi Party.
Mafia-turned-politician Atiq Ahmad, who was declared Samajwadi Party candidate from Kanpur Cant assembly seat, today said he would not contest polls.
Shivpal Yadav, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh's younger brother who was in the centre of a bitter feud in Uttar Pradesh' first family, is not disheartened after the Election Commission allotted the party symbol 'cycle' to his estranged nephew and the young Chief Minister of the state, Akhilesh.
Congress confirms alliance with Samajwadi Party, will contest UP assembly polls under Akhilesh Yadav
Putting to rest all speculations about a possible alliance between his party and the ruling Samajwadi Party, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Tuesday said that the two parties will contest the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh together.
A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday for violating the Model Code of Conduct in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.
Even as there is no word on Congress-Samajwadi Party alliance for UP assembly polls,, Gandhi scion Priyanka Vadra and state's chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife and MP Dimple Yadav have come together, at least on a poster.
There are 23 sitting legislators from parties like Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party, Congress and Rashtriya Lok Dal, who have joined BJP in recent months.
Over 150 polling booths in the district have been identified as sensitive and paramilitary forces will be deployed there to ensure free and fair assembly elections, a senior administrative official said on Tuesday.
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