Lucknow

With an eye on wooing Muslims, Congress leader Irshad Ulla has put up these posters in Prayagraj 'offering and welcoming' Azam Khan to join the party

The accused, Ahmed Murtuja Abbasi, studied at IIT, said Prashant Kumar, ADG law and order. His family has claimed he is mentally unstable

According to a notification issued on Monday, Lathar has been recognised as the Leader of Opposition with effect from March 28, Singh said

The biennial elections for the 36 out of 37 vacant seats for the upper House of the state's legislature is to be held on April 9, the counting for which would be declared on April 12

In the final phase, a total of 613 candidates were in the fray for the 54 seats, including those falling in PM Modi’s parliamentary segment Varanasi.

The neglected people facing poverty and unemployment can work to change their fate and that of the state with the power of their votes, she said.

The fourth-phase will decide the fate of 624 candidates in 59 Assembly segments spread across Pilibhit, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Unnao, Lucknow, Rae Bareli, Banda and Fatehpur districts.

Among the sitting corporators of the Lucknow Municipal Corporation, BJP’s Rajneesh Gupta is contesting from Lucknow Central.

As the election moves out of the Muslim-Jat equations, it is back to the traditional caste fault lines in phase three, in a region where BJP’s new caste arithmetic demolished traditional Mandal politics in 2017.

Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022: While the BJP has fielded Rajneesh Gupta, the Samajwadi Party (SP) has fielded former MLA Ravidas Mehrotra, and the Congress has given ticket to Sadaf Jafar.

The virtual rally, his third recently for UP, comes just days before the first phase of polling on February 10.

Baghel, a BJP MP from Agra, was once close to SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav.

UP schools continue to remain shut. The closure of schools and other educational institutions has been extended twice this month.

Former civil servant Ram Bahadur who comes from the Pasi community has a huge following in Mohanlalganj assembly constituency of Lucknow district.

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav has asked the Election Commission to remove all those close to Arun in the administration for a fair election in Uttar Pradesh. He also made insinuations that despite being a cop, Arun had worked for the BJP.

Akhilesh Yadav was speaking to reporters at his party headquarters on the occasion of 'Ann Sankalp Divas'. Agarwal has been the MLA from Gorakhpur Urban seat since 2002.