Elections to the 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases starting February 10. The polling will be held on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7.
BJP president JP Nadda said that the alliance will contest on all 403 Assembly constituencies.
Apna Dal MLAs Chaudhary Amar Singh and RK Verma have resigned just ahead of the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
The Apna Dal (S) had won nine seats in the 2017 assembly polls. The party has contested the three elections in alliance with the BJP.
Apna Dal national working president and MLC Ashish Patel said that at present there is nobody belonging to OBC and Dalit communities on the post of speaker of the UP Legislative Assembly and chairman of Legislative Council.
UP Assembly Election 2022: The BJP has announced an electoral pact with Nishad Party and Apna Dal for the next year's assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
With an eye on the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year, the BJP's ally Apna Dal(S) on Sunday demanded a separate Union ministry for the welfare of the OBC and a caste-based census across the country to ascertain the exact population of the community.
In a strange twist of events, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) district secretary Raj Kumar Pal will contest the Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh Assembly seat on an Apna Dal ticket in the upcoming by-poll.
"There is no question of a merger. The Apna Dal has been building up its strength and we will not betray the people who have supported us," said a senior Apna Dal MLA.
The SP-BSP 'Mahagathbandhan' in UP did not prove much of a challenge for the BJP as the party bagged 62 seats on the back of a strong Modi wave. Here is the full list of winning candidates from the state of Uttar Pradesh.
A total of 11 MLAs have been elected to the Lok Sabha from Uttar Pradesh this time and by-elections will be held in their constituencies.
Over 2.32 crore voters are expected to exercise their franchise in this phase in UP. As many as 25,874 polling booths have been set up in 13,979 polling centers in the final phase, the Election Commission said.
The caste slant in the final phase of elections is evident from the fact that even Prime Minister Narendra Modi had to underline the fact that he belonged to the OBC category in his election speeches.
As part of the seat-sharing agreement, Apna Dal was allocated two parliamentary constituencies- Basti and Pilibhit.
Reflecting 'frictions' with the BJP, Apna Dal(S) leader and Union minister Anupriya Patel on Thursday said she stood by the remarks of her husband and party president Ashish Patel, who had voiced frustration with the saffron party over its "treatment" of smaller NDA allies.
Anupriya, the Union minister of state for health, was conspicuous by her absence at the event where the chief minister inaugurated a medical college.
More trouble for BJP in UP, ally Apna Dal says, small parties should be respected
"We small parties, like the Apna Dal(S), want some respect to be shown to us. We, our leaders and workers feel hurt if due importance is not given to us," Ashish Patel told mediapersons in UP's Mirzapur.
Lok Sabha elections 2019: The BJP-led NDA got 73 seats out of 80 in UP in 2014 elections including two of Apna Dal.
Lucknow: Three days after Anupriya Patel became the youngest member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers, the Apna Dal announced that it was severing ties with partner BJP, accusing it of not following
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