Election 2022: Congress calls UP chief minister 'Bulldozernath', says he crushed girls' dreams

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel, who is the senior poll observer for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh,  said the party will contest on all the seats in the state in the upcoming assembly elections, giving 40 per cent seats to women this time.

The people of Uttar Pradesh do something new in every election and after voting on caste and religion basis in the past, they are ready to vote based on issues concerning them this time, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said. 

The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday released the fourth list of 15 candidates for Punjab Assembly Elections 2022. 

Union Home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said criminals in Uttar Pradesh are making an exodus now, while earlier it was common man who was forced to flee by them. The BJP leader alleged that under the Samajwadi Party rule, 3Ps—"parivarvad" (dynastic politics), "pakshpaat" (bias) and "palayan" (exodus)--were dominant and it was only after his party’s government came to power in the state, the politics of "vikasvad" (development) started. He said the BJP made a hat-trick of electoral wins since the 2014 Lok Sabha polls in the state.

The Congress on Sunday termed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath "Bulldozernath", or the lord of bulldozers, while accusing him of crushing the dreams of the girls who wanted to run a marathon organised by the party in Lucknow. Congress General secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also slammed the UP government, saying girls won't tolerate it and will fight for their rights. The statements came after the Lucknow authorities did not allow the party to hold the race there. The race was held in Jhansi on Sunday under the party’s "Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti hoon" election campaign.

India wants to manufacture BrahMos missiles not to attack any country but so that no other country has the audacity to cast an evil eye on it, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Sunday, while stressing the need for maintaining nuclear deterrents. "The BrahMos missile and other weapons and defence equipment we are manufacturing are not to attack any other country. It has never been the character of India to attack any other country or grab even an inch of land of any country," Singh said.  "We want to manufacture BrahMos on Indian soil so that no country has the audacity to cast an evil eye on India," he said, referring to the missile that is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. The defence minister laid the foundation stone of the Defence Technologies and Test Centre and the BrahMos Manufacturing Centre here, along with Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, during the day.

The Congress used to be a democratic organisation till the country gained Independence but after that it became "property" of one family, with power being transferred from one generation to another, UP Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said on Sunday.

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The Madhya Pradesh cabinet has withdrawn a recently issued ordinance for conducting the panchayat election. The state government said that the proposal has been sent to Governor Mangubhai Patel, said Home Minister Narottam Mishra. On Friday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan held a meeting regarding the OBC reservation. During the meeting, the way to implement the triple test to decide the reservation in Panchayat elections was discussed. Madhya Pradesh is mulling over granting 22 per cent reservation for OBC in panchayat polls. Statistical data will be collected for this purpose. The government is also keeping an eye on the strategy of other states.

Uttar Pradesh will become Defence production hub and BrahMos missile will be manufactured in Lucknow, along with the creation of new employment opportunities for youth, said Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday. Addressing the foundation stone laying ceremony of BrahMoS missile production unit and Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) lab, Adityanath said, "This lab will take the state in a new direction. Uttar Pradesh will become a defense hub, and BrahMos missile will be made in Lucknow as well as research will be done." "Many employment opportunities will also be created with this project," he said.

Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday by saying that the "PM could make himself available for the election campaign every day but he chose to be absent in the Parliament for all the days." 

"There was logjam in the Rajya Sabha. He could have come and eased it out but he didn't," said Kharge.

"It is just that our PM talks about his achievements and believes in addressing the nation rather than doing actual work on COVID-19. He had even decreased the deaths due to COVID-19 infection", the leader of Opposition added. "Before this never have a Prime Ministers ever done publicity for his party just like PM Narendra Modi does for BJP", added Kharge.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to launch poll campaign in Punjab from 3rd January, for the upcoming state Assembly polls: ANI sources 

Ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, a meeting of state ministers, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs and MLAs is underway at Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's residence in the national capital to chalk out strategies to woo Brahmin voters, sources told ANI. Dharmendra Pradhan is the BJP's election in-charge of Uttar Pradesh. UP Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma, state ministers Shrikant Sharma, Satish Dwivedi, Brijesh Pathak, Anand Swaroop Shukla, Jitin Prasada and others are present at the meeting. Apart from these, BJP MPs Haridwar Dubey and Rita Bahuguna Joshi are also attending the meeting.

The TMC and AAP are "fracturing" the non-BJP vote in Goa, senior Congress leader P Chidambaram said on Sunday and asserted that only his party has the capacity to defeat the BJP. Chidambaram, who is the Congress' senior election observer for the Goa Assembly polls, also said that loyalty to the party and the electorate is the first criterion for selecting candidates for the elections and expressed confidence that when elected, they will remain loyal to both the party as well as the electorate.

Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday said that the Centre would invest Rs 5 lakh crore on road projects in Uttar Pradesh in the next five years if the BJP retains power in the state in the upcoming Assembly polls.

Speaking during the laying of the foundation stone of bypass road at Jagadishpur, Babuganj, Unchahar, Allapur, the union minister said, "Rs 5 lakh crore will be invested in roads projects in Uttar Pradesh in the next 5 years if BJP comes to power again. I will make the roads of Uttar Pradesh as good as the roads of America."

Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath to visit Sangam city today. On his third visit within 10 days, the CM Yogi would lay the foundation stone of the construction of 75 houses which was been constructed under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana on the land that was freed from the clutches of Mafioso-turned-politician and ex-MP Atiq Ahmed. The CM would also be addressing a public meeting at Lukarganj after laying the foundation stone.

Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be participating in the Jan Vishvas Yatra to be taken out by the BJP on Sunday. Shah will also address public rallies in Kasganj and Jalaun.

In a statement issued here, the Uttar Pradesh BJP said that Union Minister Shah will be participating in the Jan Vishvas Yatra and address public rallies in Kasganj and later in Jalaun. Shah will tour the state in the coming days and will cover more than 140 constituencies, sources said.