UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya on Tuesday quit BJP after resigning as a cabinet minister from the Yogi government. The former UP minister has joined Samajwadi Party ahead of high-stakes assembly elections beginning next month from February 10.

Elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly are to be held in seven phases and notification for the first phase is to be issued on January 14 for polling on February 10. It was, however, not clear in the clip aired by the TV channel as to where and in which context Adityanath was speaking.

The Election Commission on Saturday announced poll dates for five states with Uttar Pradesh going for a seven-phase assembly election.

CEC Sushil Chandra today announced polling dates for all 5 poll-bound states including UP. The tenure of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly will end on May 14 this year.

Accordingly, the revised rate for metered power connection would be Rs 1 per unit instead of Rs 2 now and the fixed charge on one horsepower motors would be Rs 35 instead of the present rate of Rs 70 per meter, it said.  

In this sequence, we tried to tap the mood of people in Aligarh. People present outside the Aligarh Muslim University said that all this (Jinnah) issue was part of politics. Mohammad Ali Jinnah was history and we cannot deny it.

The ruling BJP in Uttar Pradesh has been hitting out at Samajwadi Party with a series of short films titled 'Farq Saaf Hai' ahead of the Assembly polls.   

Asaduddin Owaisi has accused PM Narendra Modi, Yogi Adityanath and Amit Shah of encouraging people who are spreading hatred in name of religion.

Gyananand Maharaj, founder of the Shri Krishan Kripa Dham, said that the community of saints will support Yogi Adityanath wholeheartedly if he decides to run for elections from Mathura.

Akhilesh Yadav's statement came in connection with BJP's 'farq saaf hai' campaign in which the 'bad man' is shown wearing red caps identical to the one worn by all Samajwadi Party workers.

Adityanath said in the dreams, Lord Krishna must have told Samajwadi Party that when they were in power, they failed to do anything for Mathura, Barsana, Vrindavan, Gokul and Baldev.  

Akhilesh Yadav has claimed that Lord Krishna comes to his dreams every night to tell me that I will form the government and establish “Ram Rajya” in Uttar Pradesh.

Adityanath's attack on Rahul comes amidst remarks by the Congress leader over the past few days wherein he repeatedly sought to highlight the difference between Hindu and Hindutva and described Hindu as tolerant and Hindutva as power-seeking.

Eight Omicron cases have so far been reported in Uttar Pradesh and of the patients, three have recovered and the others are in home isolation, the chief minister said. 

Uttar Pradesh BJP's co-media in-charge Abhay Singh said the party's public representatives, including the MPs and MLAs, are already taking suggestions of the public for preparing the 'sankalp patra'.

One of the key areas of focus for the prime minister is inculcating sporting culture and establishing world-class sporting infrastructure in all parts of the country, and the establishment of this university at Meerut will be a major step towards fulfilling this vision, a government official said.

In past 24 hours, 383 fresh COVID cases were reported in 38 districts of the state, while the number of active cases was 1,211.

Under the new policy, the price of liquor will not be increased, but the license fee will be increased by 7.5 per cent.

On being asked from which seat he will contest the election, he said "the party will decide from which seat I will contest the upcoming assembly election."

Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab will go to polls early in 2022. While the first four are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the last one has a Congress government.