UP Election 2022: BJP's agenda to make UP proud state once again, says Amit Shah

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday targeted BJP's rivals in Uttar Pradesh, accusing them of indulging in politics of appeasement, and said his party works for justice to all. He alleged that in the state, fake socialists have run the government by "throwing dust in the eyes of people". Parties like Congress, Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party do politics of appeasement, but the BJP works for justice to all, Singh said while addressing an election rally in the Lucknow North assembly constituency. Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh are underway and being held in seven phases, with the third on Sunday. Results will be declared on March 10.

Azad Samaj Party chief Chandrashekhar Azad, who is contesting against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath from Gorakhpur Urban seat, began a door-to-door campaign from Purana Gorakhpur here on Saturday. After garlanding the statue of Dr BR Ambedkar at Andhiyari Bagh, Azad covered Purana Gorakhpur, Zahidabad, Ansari Road, Jamunahiya, Humayunpur, Jageshwar Pasi Chauraha and Jatepur Uttari seeking support for himself in the elections slated for the sixth phase on March 3.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath of spending funds on advertisements instead of using them to empower people. Gandhi arrived in Raebareli on Saturday on a two-day visit to campaign for Congress candidates. Raebareli is the parliamentary constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi. Priyanka Gandhi will be holding a series of 'nukkad sabhas' and meetings in all assembly constituencies of Raebareli, where elections will be held in the fourth phase on February 23.

During the Samajwadi Party rule in Uttar Pradesh, a “bandage of appeasement was tied over the eyes of the king” but half of its leaders are now contesting polls from jails and the rest after getting bail, BJP president J P Nadda said on Saturday. In the last five years of the Yogi Adityanath government, “the law is the same in UP but the rule has changed”, Nadda said while addressing campaign meetings in Sultanpur and Amethi which go to the polls on February 27 during the fifth phase of the seven-phase UP assembly polls.

The Election Commission on Saturday censured BJP leader and Telangana MLA T Raja Singh for threatening people to vote for his party in Uttar Pradesh and barred him from campaigning for 72 hours. It also directed the chief electoral officer, Telangana, to register an FIR against Singh under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Representation of the People Act. The 72-hour ban began from 6 pm on Saturday. Earlier this week, the poll panel had cited a video clip of Singh's purported remarks while issuing him the notice. Going by the transcript of Singh's remarks quoted in the notice, he had said that those who do not vote for the BJP should know that "Yogi Ji" (Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath) has called for thousands of JCBs and bulldozers.

BJP candidate from Yamunotri Kedar Singh Rawat on Saturday joined the list of the leaders who have accused their own party colleagues of working against them in the recently held Uttarakhand Assembly polls. Though confident of winning the Yamunotri seat, Rawat said the margin of his victory could have been bigger if some party office-bearers had not worked against him.

BSP chief Mayawati on Saturday alleged that people, especially those belonging to minority communities, are living in fear under the BJP government and promised that her party will work to ensure social justice to all if voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing a rally here, the former chief minister also accused the Samajwadi Party (SP) of working against the interests of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

The State Election Commission in Punjab on Saturday directed the Mohali administration to register a case against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following a complaint by Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). 

Punjab Chief Electoral Officer has requested Sr. SP SAS Nagar to register FIR against Kejriwal "for violating Model Code of Conduct and making frivolous allegations against other parties"

WATCH 5 years ago, mafias like Azam Khan, Mukhtar Ansari and Atique Ahmed used to have an upper hand in Uttar Pradesh. Today all three of them are in jail. Yogi Adityanath has worked 5 years to end mafia raj in the state: BJP President JP Nadda in Munshiganj, Amethi

Reacting on the statement of Rajasthan Congress President Govind Singh Dotasara, Union Minister of Rural Development Giriraj Singh on February 19 alleged that Samajwadi Party and Congress Party can sell the country for the votes of the citizens. 

UP Election 2022: Mounting attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said Ashish Mishra, accused of running over farmers during a protest in Lakhimpur Kheri last year, will not get bail from 'people's court'. Read more 

It's good that govt provides ration but they should make people stand on their feet, with education & employment... We want to bring a law that'll suspend officials who don't file an FIR within 15 days of harassment complaint by a woman: Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

The BJP on Saturday dubbed Samajwadi Party as "friends of minority appeasement" and "anti-social", and alleged that it has links with terrorists involved in the 2008 Ahmedabad blasts. A special court on Friday sentenced to death 38 members of terror group Indian Mujahideen (IM) in the Ahmedabad serial blasts which killed 56 people and injured over 200. It also gave life term to another 11 IM convicts in the case. 

Mulayam Singh Yadav did not come to Karhal willingly, he was forcefully brought there for campaigning. If he was the guardian of SP then he would have also campaigned for other weaker candidates but he isn't doing that. Children become support system of elderly parents but he's (Akhilesh Yadav) the first child who's taking help from his older & ailing father to save himself from losing in the election, we'll not find any such example in Indian politics. Akhilesh Yadav is the captain of that ship which is sinking and he's fleeing from it, that's why he now needs the help of former captain (Mulayam Singh Yadav) whom he removed from the captainship in 2017: Union Minister & BJP candidate from Karhal SP Singh Baghel

BJP gave a hurried bail to the accused Ashish Mishra because they knew the government is going to change in UP... If farm laws were taken back, this means Yogi Adityanath will also have to go back. People will give full majority to Samajwadi Party & its alliance by the conclusion of fourth phase. They (BJP) promised to double the income of farmers in UP. Not even a single farmer in the state has benefited from their schemes: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav in Lakhimpur Kheri, UP

If by any chance the cycle govt (Samajwadi Party) comes to power, Uttar Pradesh will supply terrorism all over the country... under Akhilesh govt 2,000 farmers died out of hunger during famine: Union Home Minister Amit Shah, in Tindwari Assembly of Banda district

Didn't Samajwadi Party shoot at Ram bhakts? Didn't the Congress party postpone & astray the issue of Ram Janmbhoomi? Kapil Sibal (Congress leader) used to say in Supreme Court to hold the decision (of Ram Mandir), otherwise, BJP will benefit. upreme Court ordered to stop triple talaq. No other political party had the spine to remove it, they did politics of appeasement. PM Modi Ji brought the SC's order in the Parliament to get rid of it & give freedom to Muslim sisters: BJP president JP Nadda in Sultanpur, UP

"In earlier governments electricity was supplied based on religion and caste. It was given during Eid and Muharram but was not supplied during Holi and Diwali" says UP CM Yogi Adityanath at a rally in Pilibhit."Nobody could capture the land of 'Ramlalla' anywhere in the last five years and the land that was captured before that was freed under our government"

India is no longer a weak country. It has emerged as strong country. Earlier, the world would not listen when India said something at global platforms. Today, the world listens to India attentively when it speaks: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Gonda

It pains to see Congress leader Rahul Gandhi saying in parliament that a large number of Indian soldiers & only 3-4 Chinese soldiers died in the (Galwan) clash. Despite being defence minister, I didn't reply because PM said let people speak. But we know the reality. He (Congress leader Rahul Gandhi) said that China & Pakistan became friends after Narendra Modi became PM of India. He has not studied the history of ancient India, he should at least study the history of modern India. Jawaharlal Nehru was PM when Pakistan handed over illegally-occupied territory of Shaksgam Valley to China. Indira Gandhi was PM when Karakoram Highway was built in Pakistan occupied Kashmir. Manmohan Singh, not Modi Ji was PM when construction on CPEC began: Rajnath Singh

If voted to power in UP again, BJP Govt will provide free LPG gas cylinder on the ocassion of Holi and Diwali every year. Poll analysts and survey agencies have stated that in the first two phases, BJP is getting more or less the same number of seats it won in the last Assembly elections: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Colonelganj, Gonda

The Jammu and Kashmir administration on Friday announced that polling day in Punjab will be a paid holiday for the people from that state working in the Union Territory so that they can exercise their franchise. According to the order issued by the General Administration Department, sanction has been granted for a paid holiday for government employees, semi-government employees and industrial workers, who are registered voters in Punjab and working in Jammu and Kashmir, for voting on polling day on February 20.

Supporters of the Samajwadi Party and Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday evening clashed while carrying out poll campaigning near Maharajganj Police Station area. Ayodhya Senior Superintendent of Police, Shailesh Pandey on Friday told ANI, "During the campaigning, supporters of both the candidates came face to face near Kabirpur intersection of Maharajganj PS area. Both sides have accused each other of stone-pelting and firing."

The Congress on Friday released its manifesto for the February 20 Punjab Assembly polls, promising Rs 1,100 per month for needy women, eight free cooking gas cylinders per year and one lakh government jobs. Addressing the media, state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu said if the party returns to power, they will end the mafia raj by creating corporations for the sale of liquor and sand mining.

"It is our road map and agenda with which we can change the lives of the people of Punjab," he said on his party's 13-point agenda, adding that it was inspired by the philosophy of Guru Nanak Derev and also reflects Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's vision.

Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday claimed that the SAD-BSP alliance would win over 80 seats in the February 20 Punjab assembly polls. The SAD-BSP combine is heading towards an absolute majority, he said. 

“Our seats are increasing by the day as people are realising the time-tested pro-farmer, pro-poor policies of the SAD coupled with its commitment to peace and communal harmony is the only way forward," Badal said. "We are on the 80-seat threshold and this figure may increase further on polling day,” the SAD president added. Badal thanked the people for "reposing" their overwhelming faith and trust in the SAD-BSP combine by coming out in strength on the last day of campaigning to “snub both the AAP and Congress.