NEW DELHI: To retire or not to retire! The deliberations are still on but it seems it will be one tough pill for Congress to swallow. Sources in the Grand Old Party told The New Indian that while Congress deliberated and mostly agreed on the contentious issues of ‘One Family, One Post’, no person should […]
NEW DELHI: Even as the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is underway at the party headquarters here to discuss the poll debacle in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party was hit by a controversy last night over the news reports suggesting that party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and […]
LUCKNOW (UTTAR PRADESH): Even as trends of the assembly election results showed BJP retaining power in Uttar Pradesh with a comfortable majority, former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party seemed to have improved its performance. Congress, however, put up one of its worst showing. Yadav was leading with a comfortable margin in his family pocket […]
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh recorded 53.31 percent voter turnout in the sixth phase of the state assembly elections till 5 pm today, the data provided by the State Election Commission shows. Ambedkar Nagar district recorded the highest polling at 58.66 percent, while Balrampur was at the bottom of the list with a voter turnout of 48.53 […]
TAMKUHIRAJ (UTTAR PRADESH): For Uttar Pradesh Congress chief and two time sitting MLA from flood prone Tamkuhiraj assembly seat, Ajay Kumar Lallu, these elections are particularly important. In the earlier two elections, he rode against two different waves (Samajwadi Party in 2012 and Bharatiya Janata Party in 2017) and emerged victorious both the times. As […]
Amethi: Dr. Sanjay Sinh, 70, the erstwhile ‘Raja of Amethi’, is contesting the 2022 Assembly election from Amethi seat as the BJP candidate — the first time in 33 years and almost one and a half years later he left Congress. Taking potshots at the Congress, he said “People don’t believe the grand old party […]
Lucknow: Barely few hours to go to voting for the four phase of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Congress candidate from Lucknow central, Sadaf Jafar, said that party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra chose her to contest from this seat because she is a “fighter”. Speaking to The New Indian, at her office in the […]
Chandigarh: In his maiden speech for Punjab Assembly elections, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, in a veiled attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that the government instead of rectifying the problems of the past is choosing to pin the blame on the country’s first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Manmohan Singh, 89, also asserted that […]
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi is in the eye of the storm once again. A video of his has gone viral on social media platforms in which he is raising a xenophobic pitch against the people of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Delhi. “Do not let ‘bhaiyye’ from UP, Bihar and Delhi to settle in […]
Baghpat/Kairana: Western part of India’s politically vital state Uttar Pradesh, is going to polls on Thursday. Fate of 623 candidates contesting on 58 seats (out of total 403 seats of Uttar Pradesh Assembly) spanning across 11 districts such as Shamli, Hapur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Mathura and Agra will be […]