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New Delhi: In its bid to retain power in India’s most politically significant state, Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has listed four major announcements in its much awaited Sankalp Patra, that was launched by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Tuesday. The Sankalp patra enlists Yogi Adityanath Government’s performance between 2017 to 2022, with […]

New Delhi: The Congress and the ruling BJP on Monday released the list of 28 and 45 candidates respectively for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. In an interesting development, the BJP has denied tickets to two sitting women MLAs and fielded their husbands instead. The BJP has fielded Sanjay Singh from Amethi after dropping his first […]

BAGHPAT: People of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Goa, Manipur and Uttarakhand will be voting to elect their governments in the coming days. All eyes, however, are fixed on the outcome from Uttar Pradesh (UP) where the mother of all battles is being fought. After all, UP is India’s most populous and politically important state. The final […]

BHATINDA: Jagroop Singh Gill, who was once considered a close associate of Congress leader and Punjab’s finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal is now contesting against him in 2022 assembly election on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ticket. Accusing the Congress of not fulfilling the promise of eradicating the drug menace and unemployment in the constituency, Gill […]

NEW DELHI: Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, who was set to address a press conference in Muzaffarnagar along with alliance partner Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Chaudhary on Friday alleged that his helicopter was not allowed to take off from Delhi whereas another chopper carrying BJP leader […]

NEW DELHI: Former Congress minister and Jharkhand Congress in-charge Ratanjit Pratap Singh (RPN Singh), a Doon school alumnus whose career in the Grand Old Party spans across three decades, on Tuesday joined the BJP, with likely indications that he will be fielded from the saffron party in Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming polls. This is […]

Making her return to active politics, former Uttarakhand governor and Agra Rural (SC) candidate Baby Rani Maurya looks at ease as she travels between her Cantonment residence and Nainana Jat on Gwalior Road in this west UP district known for the Taj. She is one of the rare politicians in India, who after serving as […]

NEW DELHI: Putting an end to a lingering political drama, days after he was expelled from BJP, former Uttarakhand Minister Harak Singh Rawat on Friday joined Congress in the presence of senior party leaders here along with his daughter-in-law Anukriti Gosain. Harak Singh Rawat, was expelled from BJP for six years for engaging in anti-party […]

MATHURA/VRINDAVAN: Ambling into the winding lanes of Chowk Bazar in Mathura — the land of Krishna Janmbhoomi — the team of The New Indian reaches the factory where aroma of boiling milk, saffron, cardamom greets with hundreds of halwais squatted before the flames. In a few hours, as milk turns into khoya, which further becomes […]

NEW DELHI: Days after Congress released its first list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party on Thursday released its second list of 41 candidates, including 16 women candidates and social activists. The Congress has till date released the list for 191 assembly constituencies in the politically vital state. As per the new […]