SP chief Akhilesh Yadav (File Photo)Uttar Pradesh Live Updates: Ahead of the crucial Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday promised 300 units of free electricity to households, if voted to power. The former chief minister also promised free electricity for irrigational purposes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Meerut on Sunday to lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University. This will be the first visit of the Prime Minister to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh this month (and the new year); he visited the state four times in December, 2021. According to Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Dhyan Chand University will be established at Salawa and Kaili villages of Sardhana town in Meerut at an estimated cost of about ₹700 crore.
Meanwhile, launching a scathing attack from the temple town of Ayodhya, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday dared Opposition parties to stop the construction of the Ram temple, and asked people who was responsible for keeping “Ram Lalla in a tent”.
In other news, UP government released a new excise policy for 2022-23 to help farmers generate more revenue with their produce. Under the new policy, the price of liquor will not be increased, but the license fee will be increased by 7.5 per cent, Additional Chief Secretary Excise and Sugar Industry Sanjay Bhusa Reddy said.
Uttar Pradesh government has released a new excise policy for the year 2022-23 to help farmers generate more revenue with their produce. The move is aimed at generating employment and providing market for farm produce, besides attracting large scale investors, Additional Chief Secretary Excise and Sugar Industry Sanjay Bhusa Reddy told PTI on Saturday.
Under the new policy, the price of liquor will not be increased, but the license fee will be increased by 7.5 per cent, he said. He said the decision will help provide quality liquor to customers at reasonable rates. Liquor made in Uttar Pradesh will be supplied only in glass bottles instead of tetra packs, the official said.
Nearly 31,000 complaints of crimes committed against women were received by the National Commission for Women (NCW) last year, the highest since 2014, with over half of them from Uttar Pradesh. There was a 30 per cent rise in complaints of crimes against women in 2021 as compared to 2020 when 23,722 complaints were received.
Of the 30,864 complaints, a maximum of 11,013 were related to the right to live with dignity that takes into account the emotional abuse of women, followed by those related to domestic violence at 6,633 and dowry harassment at 4,589, according to official NCW data.
Days after Union home minster and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Amit Shah took a dig at Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati for not canvassing ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, she took a veiled jibe at the BJP leaders saying that “the exchequer money was keeping them warm even in the cold weather”. She also said the BSP has its own style of functioning and it does not want to “copy other parties”.
“When the Congress and BJP are in power, be it at the Centre or in states, they make announcements, foundation stone laying and inaugurations and with that they also hold election public meetings one after the other just a couple of months before the elections in which they use public money instead of the party fund… All this is visible in poll-bound UP, Punjab and Uttarakhand,” the BSP chief said.
TARGETTING THE Samajwadi Party (SP) in the home district of jailed party leader Azam Khan, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said “Rampur ka chaaku” (Rampur’s khife) had become a weapon to “capture the properties of poor and Dalits” during the tenure of the SP government. Adityanath was addressing a public meeting after inaugurating and laying the foundation stone of development projects worth Rs 95 crore. Adityanath also addressed the BJP’s ‘Jan Vishwas Yatra’ of western UP.
Speaking about his government’s “one district-one product” scheme, Adityanath said while searching for products for the scheme from Rampur, he thought of “Rampur ka chaaku”. Thinking about the usage of that chaaku (knife), reminded him of ‘Guru Parampara’, the CM said. Adityanath pointed out that “Rampur ka chaaku” was earlier used for protection. “If shastra (weapon) is in the hands of good people, they will use it for protecting the country and religion but if it goes to the hands of the wrong people, they misuse it for looting and illegally grabbing the properties of poor,” he said. (With Lalmani Verma)
During the Samajwadi Party regime in Uttar Pradesh, the famous ‘Rampuri' knives were used only for grabbing land of the poor while the present state government is promoting it under the ODOP scheme to enrich people, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday.
CM Adityanath made the blistering remark in Rampur, the home turf of veteran SP leader Azam Khan while inaugurating some completed projects and laying foundation stones for some new ones, totalling 25 developmental works worth Rs 95 crore. He also mocked SP chief Akhilesh Yadav over his remarks earlier that he too could have been built the Ram temple, saying he could have thought of it only if he had the time after developing graveyards. (PTI)
The Congress Saturday attacked the Central government over price rise, saying both Prime Minister Narendra "Modi and inflation are harmful for the country".
"Modi hai to mehengai hai (If there's Modi, there's inflation)," Congress spokesperson Supriya Shrinet said, also criticising the government over the Goods and services Tax terming it 'Gabbar Singh tax'.
Talking to reporters here, she said the Modi government's New Year gift to the poor are recession, unemployment and inflation. "Both Modi and inflation are harmful for the country," the Congress spokesman said. She said that 10 years ago when the Congress was in power, the unemployment rate was two percent, but it has reached about 10 percent in 2021. (PTI)
CM Yogi Adityanath inaugurates 25 public-welfare projects worth Rs 95 cr in Rampur.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Saturday took a veiled jibe at the BJP leaders saying the money in the exchequer was keeping them warm even in the cold weather. She also said the BSP has its own style of functioning and it does not want to "copy" other parties.
Her response comes two days after Union Home Minister Amit Shah said 'Bahanji', apparently referring to Mayawati, was yet to come out of cold. (PTI)
As new year resolution, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav said he will provide 300 units of free domestic electricity and irrigation to farmers if elected to power following the upcoming Assembly polls.
Ghaziabad Police issued a traffic advisory ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Meerut on Sunday. Modi is scheduled to lay the foundation of the Dhyan Chand Sports University in Meerut’s Sardhana during his visit. Officials said that traffic movement will be barred on the Murad Nagar-Gangnahar stretch. The route from Abupur Gate, Sonda Road, Patla Niwari Road towards Gangnahar will also be closed for commercial vehicles. Commercial vehicles traveling towards Haridwar, Meerut and Muzaffarnagar will have to take the NH-58, the advisory read. (ENS)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be visiting Meerut today to lay the foundation stone of Major Dhyan Chand Sports University at around 1pm. This will be the first visit of the Prime Minister to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh this month (and the new year); he visited the state four times in December, 2021. According to Prime Minister’s Office (PMO), the Dhyan Chand University will be established at Salawa and Kaili villages of Sardhana town in Meerut at an estimated cost of about ₹700 crore.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday said the nearly Rs 200 crore cash recovered in district is not BJP money, and that the raid was at the correct address and not by an outcome of knocking at wrong doors.
Staunchly defending the action, she said the raids, which were based on actionable intelligence, seemed to have “shaken” former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav as the person caught redhanded could be his partner or friend. Read More
Attacking the Congress in its bastion Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said the Sonia Gandhi-led party is a "problem" for the country and the root of anarchy and corruption.
Adityanath, who was addressing a gathering as part of the ruling BJP's 'Jan Vishwas Yatra' ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, also attacked the Samajwadi Party, saying that the people of the state know that a vehicle with the party's flag means that there is a goon sitting inside. Rae Bareli is the Lok Sabha constituency of Gandhi. (PTI)
Launching a scathing attack from the temple town of Ayodhya, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday dared Opposition parties to stop the construction of the Ram temple, and asked people who was responsible for keeping “Ram Lalla in a tent”.
Addressing a public meeting after visiting the under-construction Ram temple site, Shah alleged that the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and Yogi Adityanath’s in the state, unlike previous SP and BSP governments, had restored the pride in faith. He asked people not to forget those who ordered firing at ‘kar sevaks’. Read More
Union Home Minister Amit Shah holds a roadshow in Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh.
The Income Tax department Friday conducted raids at premises of two leading Kannauj-based perfume traders, hours before Akhilesh Yadav was scheduled to hold a press meet. One of the two businessmen is a Samajwadi Party leader.
“I have come to know the Income Tax department has conducted a raid at premises of Samajwadi Party MLC Pushpraj Jain “Pampi” and another perfume leader Fauzan Malik (52),” said Pawan Trivedi, president of The Attars and Perfumers Association, Kannauj. Read More
If BJP has formed Govt at the Centre and Modi Ji is the Prime Minister today for the second time, it is only because of the blessing of the 22 crore people of Uttar Pradesh: Home Minister Amit Shah in Sant Kabir Nagar.
If BJP has formed Govt at the Centre and Modi Ji is the Prime Minister today for the second time, it is only because of the blessing of the 22 crore people of Uttar Pradesh: Home Minister Amit Shah in Sant Kabir Nagar pic.twitter.com/7WUBWFhqb3
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) December 31, 2021Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday reached Ayodhaya and offered prayers at Hanuman Garhi temple in Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday inaugurated the 'Convention of Hopes' and '80,000 Mobile Phone Distribution Campaign' in Lucknow.
In a setback to the Samajwadi Party (SP), its MLC and former Uttar Pradesh minister Shatarudra Prakash joined the BJP at the saffron party's state headquarters here on Friday. A socialist since his student days, Prakash joined the BJP in the presence of the party's state unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh.
Prakash, who joined politics while studying in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU), was elected as a member of the Legislative Assembly for the first time in 1974 from Varanasi Cantonment as a Socialist Party nominee. Three years later, he was again elected from the same constituency as a Janata Party candidate.