Karhal is just four km from Akhilesh's native village Saifai in the Etawah district. Akhilesh served as the Chief Minister between 2012 and 2017 through the legislative council route and is also an MP from Azamgarh presently.

The Yogi Adityanath-led government had told the Apex Court that on February 13 and 14, it withdrew 274 recovery notices issued against anti-CAA protestors for destruction of properties.

Lashing out at the Congress, Yogi Adityanath said that the day labourers from UP stop going to other states for work, 'the Congress government would know what the situation would be there'.

Rajnath Singh said they (BJP) never did Hindu-Muslim politics and neither accepted politics based on caste or creed. It's the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, Congress that do caste, creed politics but BJP only believes in politics of development.

 Addressing an election rally here, PM Modi said people in UP are saying only the BJP will come to power in the state, and cautioned that attempts were being made to divide them.

Mukhtar Ansari was arrested in 2005 for his alleged role in the murder of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai, and he has been behind the bars ever since.

Union Minister and BJP's Karhal candidate SP Singh Baghel alleged that Samajwadi Party has always been involved in booth capturing in this region as they want to threaten people not to vote.

Adityanath reached the Ravidas temple at the Seer Govardhan premises in the morning, paid his respects to the 15th-16th century poet and also had 'prasad' at the 'langar' served.

BJP leaders often talk about the Congress' dynastic politics to target Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. 

CM Yogi Adityanath said that Akhilesh Yadav should understand that cases against Azam Khan pertain to courts and not state governments.

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that after the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, there is no doubt about the BJP forming the government for another five years.

Taking to Twitter, CM Yogi Adityanath said, "Those who dream of Gazva-e-Hind, religious fanatics of Talibani thinking, understand this... India will run according to the constitution, not according to Shariat...!"

Voting will be held on Monday in all assembly seats in Goa and Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh. Election officials said all arrangements have been made to conduct polling while following COVID-19 protocols.

Yogi said that the BJP government has constructed a 200-person barrack in the 43rd Corps PAC in the Sadar area of Etah district and a hostel for 200 personnel in the police line.

Another poster girl of Congress' 'Ladki hoon lad sakti hoon' campaign, Pallavi Singh has joined BJP amid UP assembly election 2022.

Uttarakhand is moving in the right direction, and it should continue to tread that path, Adityanath said. Targeting the Congress for talking about establishing a Muslim university in Uttarakhand, he added that the party has no leadership.

Polling closed at 6 pm but those already in queue were allowed to vote, Election Commission officials said. There were reports of technical snags in EVMs at some places, but voting was peaceful, they added.

Ahead of the first phase polling in the state, UP CM Adityanath had posted a message on Twitter, and said, "It would not take much time for Uttar Pradesh to become Kashmir, Kerala and Bengal."

The battle for Uttar Pradesh began on Thursday with polling at 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts in the western part of the state.

In the first of the seven-phase Uttar Pradesh assembly election 2022, polling will be held in 11 districts including Muzaffarnagar, Meerut, Baghpat, Ghaziabad, Shamli, Hapur, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Agra, and Mathura.