Union Home Minister Amit Shah during an election campaign for UP polls, in Pilibhit. (PTI Photo)2022 Assembly Election LIVE Updates, Punjab Election, UP Chunav News: Hailing the Yogi Adityanath government’s work on the law and order in Uttar Pradesh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said no “baahubali” can now be seen, even using a telescope, and that it is only “Bajrangbali” everywhere in the state. Addressing an election rally in Bahraich, Shah also took a dig at the Samajwadi Party and said its chief Akhilesh Yadav cannot see the change in law and order as because of “dark glasses” he is wearing.
Speaking at a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “Parivarvaadis are so far from ground reality that they can’t see what’s happening. They want to come to power to increase their family’s stature and rule over you like kings. Our power isn’t about the mafia, but about the public.”
The fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections on Wednesday recorded nearly 60 per cent polling, according to Election Commission’s data that was last updated at 9.30 pm. Spread over nine districts, the 59 constituencies had in the previous Assembly election seen a turnout of 62.55 per cent, and, in the Lok Sabha polls, recorded 60.03 per cent voting.
Home Minister Amit Shah, and BSP chief Mayawati during their campaigns in UP. (Photos: PTI)
Taking cognisance of a video purportedly showing tampering of postal ballots, the Election Commission has sought a report from Pithoragarh District Magistrate on it at the earliest, official said on Thursday. The recording is said to have originated from Didihat constituency. An action in the matter will be taken after his report is received, Additional Chief Electoral Officer C Ravishankar said. The video in which a man in Army uniform is purportedly seen ticking and signing several postal ballots was shared by AICC general secretary and former chief minister Harish Rawat on Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday asking whether the poll body would take cognisance of it. --PTI
Praising the Yogi Adityanath government's work on the law and order front in Uttar Pradesh, Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah on Thursday said no "baahubali" can be seen now even using a telescope and that it is only "Bajrangbali" everywhere. Addressing an election rally here, Shah also targeted the Samajwadi Party and said its chief Akhilesh Yadav cannot see the improvement in law and order as he is wearing "dark glasses". He said the BJP had promised to improve law and order in the 2017 election campaign and Adityanath, after becoming the chief minister, eradicated mafia elements. "Yogiji has run the government in a manner that no 'baahubali' can be seen even through the telescope, only Bajrangbali is seen everywhere," Shah said. --PTI
The Prime Minister, while addressing the rally, said: “When vaccination started, Modi didn't run to get vaccinated. We got frontline workers, elderly and people with co-morbidities inoculated first. Had parivarvaadis been in power, they'd have broken all lines to get vaccinated first. Even my mother's waiting for her third dose.”
Speaking at a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: “Parivarvaadis are so far from ground reality that they can't see what's happening. They want to come to power to increase their family's stature and rule over you like kings. Our power isn't about the mafia, but about the public.”
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will campaign in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj district today. He will hold meetings at Handia and Phulphur.
Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader and former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia, booked in a drugs case, surrendered before a Mohali court Thursday morning after his interim bail ended. He was accompanied by several SAD MLAs. Presently Majithia is with the special investigation team (SIT) probing the case. Sources said the SIT team will question him. On December 20, the Punjab Police booked Majithia under various sections of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act.
ampaigning for the BJP candidates in Uttar Pradesh, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday hit out at Akhilesh Yadav over the issue of triple talaq, saying that the Samajwadi Party chief “ignored the pain and suffering of Muslim women who became victims of triple talaq because of vote bank consideration”.
“An ill practice like triple talaq had left Muslim women and their entire families devastated. I would ask the pariwarvadis (dynasts) since you talk so much about family, why didn’t you worry about Muslim daughters’ pain? My Muslim sisters had to return to their father’s home with their young children, then why didn’t you understand the pain of their family? We may not be pariwar waale (family persons), but we understand the pain of every family because entire India and UP is my family,” said Modi at an election rally in Barabanki.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah Wednesday said the BJP will end the problem of the Kuki insurgency in the state if voted to power for the second time. Shah was addressing an election rally in Churachandpur, a Kuki-dominated district situated on the southwestern corner of the state. Read More
BJP leader Raghvendra Pratap Singh, who is seeking re-election Domariyaganj in Siddharthnagar district, has been booked for allegedly giving an objectionable speech at a public meeting last week. This is the second FIR registered against Singh in the last 10 days. Police registered the case against the BJP MLA on the basis of a video doing rounds on social media. Singh, who is also the state in-charge of Hindu Yuva Vahini, has been booked under IPC sections related to promoting enmity between different groups, said the Station House Officer (Domariyaganj), Vakeel Pandey.
The tenure of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh, who formed the state’s first BJP government after the 2017 Assembly elections, has seen both highs and lows over the last five years. On one hand, the former footballer and journalist has been seen as an amiable, accessible Meitei leader, who has worked hard to bridge the hill-versus-valley divide in the conflict-ridden state.
On the other, the 56-year-old leader has also drawn criticism over his government’s crack-down on dissenting voices and its move to make a series of arrests under the UAPA. In an interview with The Indian Express, Biren Singh, who is spearheading the saffron party’s campaign in the upcoming state Assembly elections, spoke on a range of issues related to his track-record and polls. Read the full interview here
After jettisoning Kamlapati Tripathi as the Uttar Pradesh chief minister in June 1973 and placing the state under President’s rule for nearly five months, the Indira Gandhi-led Congress dispensation asked senior party leader Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, who was then Union minister of state for communications, to take over as the new CM. Bahuguna took the oath as UP’s eighth CM on November 8, 1973. He was heading the government when the state went to the polls four months later and was on March 5, 1974, sworn in as the CM again following the Congress’s election victory. Read More
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