UP POLLS

HATHRAS: Mobbed by a group of demure women, Anjula Singh Mahor, turns mateteral as she grabs the microphone to speak on the essence of Yogi government’s much-talked about Anti-Romeo force. Anti Romeo force is a special police unit that was raised in 2017 by the BJP government to restore faith in civil society after a […]

MADAULI (ATRAULI, ALIGARH): Clad in a cheap cotton saree, diminutive Ramwati Devi looks content as she snuggles up on a cot, overlooked by a towering obituary poster remembering her husband and former UP CM Kalyan Singh who had refused to fire at  Kar Sewaks over demolition of Babri mosque in 1992. Devi, who stays at […]

NEW DELHI: The first phase of polling of Uttar Pradesh (UP) Assembly elections began actively in Western UP on Thursday with several districts seeing more than 7% voting by 9 am already.  In the first phase, the people of 58 constituencies across 11 disticts of the Western UP are casting their votes. The two most prominent candidates […]

THANA BHAWAN (SHAMLI, UP): At a roundabout near Hedgewar Chowk in Thana Bhawan — the constituency of Yogi Adityanath government’s sugarcane development minister and two-time MLA Suresh Rana in Uttar Pradesh’s notorious Shamli region — Manoj Kucchal, a retail shop owner, shudders as he recalls frequent distasteful innudendoes made on women by hawkers, real estate […]

LUCKNOW: West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee once again came forward in support of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) supremo Akhilesh Yadav and targeted the BJP by describing it as a “danger” to the country. Addressing a joint press conference here with Akhilesh, Banerjee did not mince […]

LUCKNOW: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced to repeal the three farm laws in upcoming session of Parliament, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the government decided to do so because it had understood that they would face “reverses” in the upcoming assembly elections. Speaking to media here, Priyanka Gandhi, who is […]

LUCKNOW: Hundreds of iconic shrines and myriad of tales from religious scripts and epics not just mention Uttar Pradesh as the birth place of Krishna and Rama but also the site where Lord Shiva, Lord Buddha visited extensively. Did no previous chief minister of UP before 2017 ever worked to develop these places for the […]

LUCKNOW: A day after Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ran into former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on a Lucknow-bound Vistara flight from Delhi, there seems to be little indication that Opposition would be united in the 2022 Vidhan Sabha elections. It is interesting to note that Priyanka […]