Assembly Elections 2022 LIVE: One thing is certain that Opposition will not come back, says CM Adityanath

AAP national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will launch the party's campaign for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections at a rally here on January 2, party spokesperson Sanjay Singh said on Thursday. He said the rally will create an atmosphere for political discussion on important issues like employment. Earlier, Kejriwal's rally was to be held on November 28 but was postponed amid talk of a pre-poll alliance between the Aam Aadmi Party and the Samajwadi Party.

Congress announces first list of eight candidates for Goa Assembly elections 2022. Former CM Digambar Kamat to contest from Margao Assembly seat

"Tomorrow I will stay in Lucknow on my stay in Uttar Pradesh. There @BJP4UP and I will address a joint rally of Nishad Party, after which I will participate in the inauguration program of UP Co-operative Bank's branches and stores and will address the inaugural session of the 7th National Convention of Sahakar Bharati," tweeted Amit Shah 

The Yogi Adityanath government, on Thursday, said in the state Assembly that it had taken all appropriate steps in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident, in keeping with the law, and the Opposition should desist from raising the issue for political gains. Parliamentary affairs minister Suresh Khanna said that a minister's son was arrested and sent to jail after the FIR was filed against him. "He is still in jail along with other accused. The families of the deceased have been paid adequate compensation. Investigations are being monitored by the Supreme Court and what more does the Opposition want?" he asked.

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi in the interview says that I meet people 24 hours. I meet people in the drawing-room, hall, bathroom. I think he is the first CM in the history of the world who meet people in the bathroom: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Muktsar, Punjab

Addressing an election rally in Dehradun, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that Pakistan bowed its head within 13 days in the 1971 war. Generally, a war is fought for 6 months, 1-2 years. America took 20 years to defeat Afghanistan but India made Pakistan lose in 13 days only as India was united & was standing as one.

We are working on establishing 16 new medical colleges in the state. Why shouldn't there be medical colleges in every district of the state?: CM Yogi Adityanath during winter session of the Assembly

Some said third wave will come in August, some in September...we said we will come back, form our govt & stop the third wave of Covid. One thing is certain that many of you (Opposition) will not come back: CM Yogi Adityanath

Instead of reducing the burden on people, previous governments themselves were a burden. PPE kits, masks, and sanitizers made now in UP. We provided free ration, free tests, free vaccines, and free medicines, this is what 'sabka sath, sabka vikas' means: UP CM Yogi Adityanath

Samajwadi Party national president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday met uncle Shivpal Yadav in Lucknow. This is the first meeting between Akhilesh and Shivpal after 2017. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

PM Modi to lay the foundation stone of 594 km long Ganga Expressway in Shahjahanpur, UP on 18 Dec. The Expressway will be built at a cost of over Rs 36,200 cr. 3.5km long airstrip for assisting emergency take-off and landing of IAF planes to be constructed on the Expressway: PMO

A day after resigning as an MLA, former Goa minister Rohan Khaunte on Thursday said he would join the ruling BJP. Khaunte, who quit as an independent MLA from the Porvorim Assembly constituency, said in a statement, "I have decided to join the BJP to ensure the continuity of Porvorim's development as well as to imbibe a culture of inclusiveness and togetherness. I will be joining BJP on Friday at Mahalaxmi temple in Panaji at 10 am." 

Goa BJP MLA Alina Saldanha resigned from the state Assembly as well as the party on Thursday, ahead of the Goa polls due next year, claiming the BJP was no longer the same organisation which she joined after her husband's death in 2012. Saldanha, 69, submitted her resignation at the Goa Assembly Speaker's office. Apart from Saldanha, four other legislators of different parties have resigned from the 40-member House in the recent past. Alina Saldanha's husband Mathany Saldanha, who had been a minister in the Manohar Parrikar-led cabinet, died in 2012, following which she contested the by-election on the BJP's ticket from Cortalim Assembly segment and won.  She had also won the 2017 Assembly election on the BJP's ticket.

Congress MLAs protest outside UP Legislative Assembly demanding resignation of MoS Home Ajay Kumar Mishra whose son Ashish Mishra is an accused in Lakhimpur Kheri violence.

Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) national spokesperson Rakesh Tikait has said that the farmers' struggle would be written in golden letters. Tikait also clarified that he had no intentions of contesting elections and warned people against using his photographs on political hoardings. "I have nothing to do with any political party," he said in Muzaffarnagar.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah is slated to hold 'Nishad Samaj Jan Sabha' in Uttar Pradesh on Friday as many political parties in the state are trying to woo castes beyond their core vote base in order to set social equations in their favour ahead of Assembly elections months away. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Goa Chief Minister Pramod Sawant has said the state government will conduct an investigation into the Congress' allegation of BJP legislator Milind Naik being involved in a sexual exploitation case. Naik, who was serving as Goa's urban development minister, resigned from the state cabinet on Wednesday after meeting the chief minister in Panaji. Goa Congress chief Girish Chodankar had accused Naik of being involved in the sexual exploitation of a woman by misusing his power as a cabinet member. 

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday announced an increasing monthly honorarium of village heads, kshetra panchayat heads and district panchayat chairpersons. The honorarium of village heads will be increased from Rs 3,500 to Rs 5,000 per month, of kshetra panchayat heads from Rs 9,800 to Rs 11,300 per month and of district panchayat chairpersons from Rs 14,000 to Rs 15,500 per month. According to an official statement, Adityanath also announced an increase in the allowance of district panchayat members from Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,500 per meeting for a maximum of six meetings annually. Similarly, the meeting allowance of kshetra panchayat members will be increased from Rs 500 per meeting to Rs 1,000 for a maximum of six meetings annually. He announced that gram panchayat members will get Rs 100 per meeting for a maximum of 12 meetings a year. He also announced financial assistance, ranging between Rs 2 lakh and Rs 10 lakh, for dependents of village heads, kshetra panchayat heads, district panchayat chairpersons in case of their untimely death.

Aam Aadmi Party's national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal arrived in Punjab for a two-day visit on Wednesday. He will lead a Tiranga Yatra in Jalandhar and also address a public meeting in Lambi.