Assembly Election 2022 Updates: 'We will give employment to 4 lakh, LPG cylinder at Rs 500'

Accusing Prime Minister Narendra Modi of leaving protesting farmers on roads for a year amid the pandemic, Rahul Gandhi termed him a "21st-Century king" and pledged the Congress would form a government in Uttarakhand that would never shut out people. Addressing election rallies in Haridwar and at Kichcha in Udham Singh Nagar district, the former Congress chief alleged that Modi only cared for his billionaire friends and left the rest to fend for themselves.

Fighting the 2022 UP assembly as a joint candidate of his party along with Samajwadi Party from his family bastion Jaswantnagar here in the district, PSP chief Shivpal Yadav on Saturday pleaded with people to reelect him with a record margin. SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s younger brother, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) chief is fighting the polls this time after a truce with his nephew and SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.

We are making 4 promises to you. We will give employment to 4 lakh people. We will give LPG cylinder less than Rs 500. We will also implement 'Nyay' scheme here, in which 5 lakh families will be given Rs 40,000 in a year. We will provide medical facilities at your doorstep... We had promised loan waiver for farmers in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Punjab and we did that: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Haridwar

Remember the Muzaffarnagar riots? Even SC condemned & said that they were a result of Akhilesh govt's failure & that the arrangements for compensation were such that only one category of religious community can benefit. Today, there are no mafias: BJP president JP Nadda

Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand: Earlier (in UPA govt) India was led by a prime minister of the country but today's India is being led by a king, who just take decisions & listen to no one. .a PM should work for everyone, listen to people...Narendra Modi ji is not a PM, but a king. He ignored farmers for almost a year, because a king doesn't talk or listen to labourers & takes his own decision for them.: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi while addressing a gathering of farmers at Kichha Mandi

If one Owaisi will be killed then you've (addressing public gathering) to give birth to more Owaisi. If you (BJP) can't save common people then what's the point of providing Z category security to me. Guns can't stop me: AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi

The Delhi government on Saturday announced that polling days in Uttar Pradesh would be paid holidays for the people from that state employed in the national capital so that they can exercise their franchise. Polling in Uttar Pradesh would be held in seven phases starting on February 10. The second phase would be held on February 14, the third on February 20, the fourth on February 23, the fifth on February 27 and the final phase on March 7. Counting of votes will be held on March 10. According to a notice by the General Administrative Department of the Delhi government, the waiver applies to every person employed in any business, trade, industrial undertaking or any other establishment in the National Capital Territory of Delhi and entitled to vote in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. There should be no deduction in salary on account of holiday on the polling day, it said.

Opposition never cared for nation's development, they only cared for their families' development; they have limited vision... today, no poor person has any shortage of food with PM Garib Kalyan Yojana. This is the difference between BJP & them: BJP president JP Nadda in Hapur, UP

Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, accusing him of leaving farmers on roads for a year amid the COVID-19 pandemic and said his party will never do that. Addressing a virtual rally in Kichha here ahead of the upcoming Uttarakhand Assembly polls, the Congress leader also said India does not have a prime minister but a king who expects the public to keep quiet when he takes a decision. Gandhi said the Congress will not shut its doors on farmers, youths, labourers or the poor and it wants a partnership with them. Elections to the 70-member Uttarakhand Assembly will be held on February 14. 

I think Rahul Gandhi came here as a tourist, on a vacation. If he cannot see all this development, I don't understand what he's doing. Never mind, no one takes him seriously anyway. They (Congress-Goa Forward Party candidates, who took a pledge) have to prove time & again that they're loyal to Congress. Things people do in front of God... now have to be done in front of Rahul Gandhi. People trust & will support BJP: Goa CM Pramod Sawant

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra conducts a door-to-door campaign in the Khair Assembly constituency of Aligarh

SP doing politics of appeasement, only BJP can do development in UP. We should abstain from politics of appeasement & religion... the way India dealt with COVID19, even developed nations like the US couldn't deal like that. No other nation has vaccinated its citizens with the speed we have: Rajnath Singh in Kheragarh, Agra

I'd like to ask UP CM to please probe properly. Your govt invoked NSA over a cricket match. Give justice in this case too, UP public will know that you're independent. If this radicalization prevails, it can be converted to terrorism & communalism: A Owaisi on attack on his vehicle

Given the anger of the people, the alliance (SP-RLD) is going to get 400 seats; opposition will get the remaining 3 seats. Family of the daughter from Hathras wanted justice, they wanted to cremate her respectfully. But what did people of this Govt do? They didn't let it happen. Had she received proper treatment at hospital, she would perhaps have been alive today: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, in Aligarh. SP condemned the incident (firing on vehicle of Asaduddin Owaisi) as soon as we got to know. BJP should answer if mafia opened fire when they saw a political leader. It's the biggest failure of law & order system. We've seen their law & order many times: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav 

The BSP on Saturday released a list of 54 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, fielding Khwaja Samsuddin against Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban constituency. In its latest list, the Mayawati-led party has given tickets to seven Muslim candidates. The Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded Santosh Tiwari from Fazilnagar assembly constituency in Kushinagar district. Tiwari will take on Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate and former BSP leader Swami Prasad Maurya. The BSP has given tickets to Prateek Pandey from Katehari and to Chandra Prakash Verma from Akbarpur. Both constituencies fall under Ambedkarnagar district. In the 2017 state assembly elections, BSP's Lalji Verma and Ram Achal Rajbhar had won from Katehari and Akbarpur respectively.

Congress releases a list of star campaigners who will campaign for the party's candidates in the third phase of Uttar Pradesh Elections. Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Ghulam Nabi Azad, Ashok Gehlot, Sachin Pilot, Mohd Azharuddin and others to campaign.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday held a door-to-door election campaign in his home turf Gorakhpur. With just a few days left for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader will also address a meeting of the Sikh community in a Gurdwara in the Mohaddipur locality of the city.

Aam Aadmi Party's chief ministerial face for the upcoming Punjab assembly elections Bhagwant Mann on Friday slammed the Centre on allegations of opening liquor stores in the national capital for merely profit and said that the collection from liquor stores will be used for infrastructure development.
Mann was carrying out a door-to-door campaign for the upcoming elections here and met people in different areas of the district under 'Mission Punjab 2022'. During this, people welcomed Mann by showering flowers.

Cash amounting to Rs 35 lakh was seized from a car at the Kumher border between Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan here on Friday, police said. "Imran, the driver of the car, failed to furnish details about the money," Superintendent of Police (rural) Shrish Chandra said. He said an SST team led by magistrate Navneet Garg, with the help of police, was checking vehicles at the inter-state border when the car was intercepted. The money was kept in a bag in the luggage space of the vehicle, police said. SST teams have been deputed at strategic locations to check the use of illicit money ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, officials said. The 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly is scheduled to go to polls in seven phases from February 10 to March 7 and the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10.

Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president JP Nadda will conduct public programs in Hapur, Moradabad and Noida on Saturday to campaign for the BJP, announced BJP. He will conduct public meetings at 12:40 pm and 3:20 pm in the Assembly constituencies of Hapur and Moradabad respectively on Saturday, added BJP. He will conduct the public meeting at Brahma Devi Balika Vidyalaya, Modinagar Road, Hapur while in Moradabad, he will conduct a public meeting at Rahi Hotel Maidan, as per BJP. He will interact with the public at 5:35 pm in Sector 12, Noida and communicate with voters at 5.50 pm in Bhaurao Devras Inter College in Noida, said the BJP.

Apna Dal(K) said it has "given back" the seats allotted to it as part of the seat sharing agreement with the SP and has asked they ally to first "satisfy its own people" seeking tickets. The Samajwadi Party, however, said there is no dispute with Apna Dal(K) regarding ticket distribution and such "minor issues" will be resolved soon. The seats returned by the Apna Dal(K) include the Sirathu assembly constituency from where party’s Pallavi Patel would be contesting against BJP leader and deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya. This is the first sign of trouble in the SP-led opposition alliance which is aggressively positioning itself against the BJP in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls.

Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday said that after March 10 people of state will bid a farewell to Samajwadi Party alliance, Congress, and the Bahujan Samaj Party. He said before 2017 the state was reeling under lawlessness, “goondaism”, “mafiasm”, riots and incidents of kidnapping. He said people of the state were forced to leave UP due to “goondaism” of Samajwadi Party. Maurya was in the city to campaign for BJP candidates from Bah, Fatehabad, and Fatehpur Sikri seats. "As the Bharatiya Janata Party government came to power, nobody had to leave UP. Only those malcontents are leaving UP, who used to torture innocent people,” he said. "In 2022, SP chief is dreaming of winning 403 seats, but they would also lose 47 seats they had won in the 2017 assembly election of UP," he said. He claimed that no goons can afford to commit “land grab” any more or cause riots. "Now the reign of goondas, mafias has ended from Uttar Pradesh," Maurya said.

The SSM, a political front of farmers said it has been allotted a 'cot' as the party symbol for the February 20 Punjab assembly polls.The development comes days after the Election Commission of India approved the Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (SSM) as the name of a political party subject to fulfilling certain conditions for the formal registration. SSM leader Prem Singh Bhangu said their party has got 'cot' as the poll symbol and claimed that SSM candidates were getting overwhelming response from the people.

To boost the morale of the party workers ahead of the Uttarakhand Assembly elections, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will visit the state today i.e. on February 5. Uttarkhand Congress in-charge Devender Yadav informed that Gandhi will hold a virtual poll campaign in Haridwar and Haldwani Assembly seats.