SAMAJWADI PARTY

LUCKNOW: As the results indicative of victory for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh started rolling out, the mood at the state party headquarters turned festive with the supporters playing holi. As soon as definitive trends emerged suggesting a second consecutive term for the BJP in the state, hundreds of party workers […]

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: A day before counting of votes for the crucial Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Samajwadi Party (SP) president and former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has provided fresh fodder to the political rivalry with allegations of electronic voting machines (EVMs) fraud in the state. He claimed that EVMs had been transported in Varanasi without information to […]

Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav, who was in Varanasi ahead of the seventh phase polls, spoke to The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua on the prospects of his party in 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections, in which he has aligned with smaller parties like Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP), Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) and Apna […]

LUCKNOW: The last and seventh phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections witnessed a voter turnout of 54.18 percent till 5 pm, the data provided by the Election Commission of India (ECI) shows. The highest voting of 59.54 percent was recorded in Chandauli district, whereas Varanasi was at the bottom of the list with 52.31 percent […]

MAU (UTTAR PRADESH): An international level shooter, Abbas Ansari easily gets lost in people in his assembly constituency that was once represented by his father Mukhtar Ansari, who is sitting inside a prison. Abbas, carrying on the tough countenance of his father, calls people of Mau his family and asks them to vote for change. […]

GORAKHNATH TEMPLE (GORAKHPUR): Shortly before sunrise, Kailash Prajapati, a cook, is wide awake to prepare a strict vegetarian meal, with not a single stodgy item on the frugal menu that comprises only porridge and some cut fruits. Maharaj is busy reciting the ritual hyms of Durga aarti and ved shlokas before he sets out for a walk to feed […]

Trends emerging out of the fourth phase polling have more or less confirmed as to which party would form the government in Uttar Pradesh. Till now, the elections have been held for 231 seats out of 403 seats of the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly. Uttar Pradesh is India’s politically most important state with 80 Lok […]

LUCKNOW: Even as polling for the fourth phase in Uttar Pradesh is underway in full swing, Abhishek Mishra, Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate from Sarojini Nagar in Lucknow, said that people have rejected the hate politics of Hindu and Muslims and are voting for development. Speaking to The New Indian after casting his vote at Sarojini […]

LUCKNOW: Even as polling for the fourth phase in Uttar Pradesh is underway, Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow central Ravidas Mehrotra claimed he will bag the prestigious seat. According to him, it was sensing their defeat that BJP decided to field Brajesh Pathak, law minister in the current government, from another seat. After casting his […]