Assembly Elections 2022 Live Updates: With the Assembly elections in five states – Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur – just months away, top leaders of the parties are holding back-to-back rallies. Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is scheduled to address a women’s rally in Firozabad in Uttar Pradesh today. Gandhi will address ‘Ladki hun, lad sakti hun’ (I am a girl and can fight), which is gaining traction among the members of fairer gender and the party thinks that it could be a game changer in the UP elections.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to meet the Council of Ministers today and is expected to discuss the situation of Omicron and the party’s preparedness for the polls.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be holding a meeting with his Council of Ministers today at 4 pm.
The BJP has launched an all-out offensive against the Samajwadi Party over the recovery huge cash from Kanpur-based businessman Piyush Jain in taxation raids. The ruling party claims that the perfumer is associated with the SP – a charge denied by Akhilesh Yadav.
The Election Commission is on a three-day visit to Uttar Pradesh to review the preparedness for the upcoming elections amid the threat of the rising cases of Omicron variant. It is learnt that the poll body is unlikely to postpone the assembly polls in the five states or impose ban on poll rallies.
