Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the SP-RLD alliance, Congress, SP and Bahujan Samaj Party have released the list of their candidates.
BJP released its first list of 107 candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh in which it denied tickets to 20 sitting MLAs and fielded 21 new candidates.
The car, which had its registration from Lucknow, was caught by the flying squad team from the Ramadevi intersection in the Chakeri area police station.
BJP has given tickets to 11 Jat candidates so far, 5 Gurjar candidates and nine Thakurs.
Mafia don-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari will be contesting his sixth election on the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP), a ticket from Mau. SBSP President Om Prakash Rajbhar had met Mukhtar in jail and offered him a ticket.
Elections for the 403 assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh will be held in seven phases starting February 10, the Election Commission said.
The saffron party suffered a jolt on Tuesday when three of its MLAs resigned citing "ignorance of the state government" of the poor and weaker section of society.
According to ECI, there are a total of 24.42 lakh registered voters above 80 years of age in UP.
The final decision on Adityanath's constituency will be taken in the meeting of the BJP's Central Election Committee (CEC) today, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi will also be present.
Commenting further, BSP MP Satish Chandra Misra said that neither SP nor BJP will come to power and stated that BSP is going to form the Government in Uttar Pradesh.
The Election Commission has already announced the dates and all the political parties have started flexing their muscles in the poll-bound states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday exuded confidence of returning to power with a thumping majority after the Election Commission announced the schedule for five state assembly elections. Watch Kurukshetra to know why Yogi Adityanath is confident about his victory.
The Election Commission on Saturday announced poll dates for five states with Uttar Pradesh going for a seven-phase assembly election.
Assembly Election in UP will be held in 7 phases starting February 10. Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand will vote in single phase on February 14. Manipur will have voting in two phases on March 3, 7. Results will be announced on March 10.
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 Election Commission is due to hold assembly polls in five states -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Goa this year.
Referring to the raids on perfume traders in Kanpur and Kannauj, Yadav said, "These people are being raided as the people of Jain community are in minority. These people (BJP) do not want the people from the Jain community to prosper."
Thakur expressed confidence that BJP will return to power in UP with over 300 seats on back of a positive public sentiment due to action against "gundaraj" under Yogi Adityanath govt.
Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab will go to polls early next year. While the first four are ruled by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the last one has a Congress government.
"Our main aim is to remove BJP from power and SP should come into power under the leadership of Akhilesh Yadav," Shivpal added.
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