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Uttar Pradesh 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Here's a look at the key candidates and their constituencies in Uttar Pradesh.

2024 Lok Sabha Elections: Mayawati to go solo in Uttar Pradesh

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Uttar Pradesh goes to the polls on all seven phases of the Lok Sabha elections, beginning April 19 and ending on June 1.

Uttarakhand: Over 55% voter turnout in Bageshwar assembly bypoll as polling ends

Bageshwar District Magistrate Anuradha Paul said 55.44 per cent voting was recorded in the bypoll. The voter turnout for the seat in 2022 assembly polls was 60.01 per cent, she said. The counting of votes will take place on September 8 and the result will be declared on the same day.

No truck with INDIA, nor with NDA, Mayawati to go it alone in 2024 elections

BSP chief says both alliances consist mostly of parties that are “anti-poor, casteist, communal, pro-rich and capitalist, against whose policies BSP has always fought”

Key witness in 2005 BSP MLA murder case shot dead in Prayagraj

One of his gunners, who too was hit in the firing, died later at a hospital, they said.

From expanding electoral footprint to social base: 5 charts show how Modi has changed the BJP

Between 2014 and 2022, Narendra Modi not only transformed the BJP into the world’s largest political party, but, along with Amit Shah, he also helmed a fundamental structural retooling of the party and its support base.

Inaugurating half-baked projects will not strengthen BJP's base: Mayawati

Mayawati also congratulated the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on completing 100 years and hoped that in the 2022 Punjab Assembly polls, the SAD-BSP alliance will secure a comfortable majority and form the government.

Congress again clings to the past with its ‘do not drink’ debate

The Grand Old Party continues to be deeply reluctant to chart a new course and face up to fresh challenges with creative ideas.

Voting for 476 block panchayat chief posts underway in Uttar Pradesh

According to State Election Commissioner Manoj Kumar, 1,778 nomination papers were received for 825 posts of the block panchayat chief, of which 68 were cancelled and 187 withdrawn.

BSP-Congress merger: Case goes back to single-judge bench of Rajasthan High Court

The single-judge bench of Justice Mahendra Kumar Goyal had issued notices to the speaker and secretary of the assembly, and the six MLAs on July 30 and directed them to submit replies on August 11.

Opposition infighting: Kumaraswamy calls Congress 'another name for horse-trading', Mayawati waiting to 'teach lesson'

Kumaraswamy also reminded Congress, which was crying hoarse about the purchase of MLAs, that it had divided the JD(S) in Karnataka in the past.

Mayawati to address poll rallies in Delhi from February 3

The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister is camping here for the last one week to supervise her party's strategy for the February 8 polls.

Politics | SP-BSP disunity will further help BJP in Uttar Pradesh

If the SP-BSP alliance breaks up, the BJP would have the last laugh as the assembly polls would become a triangular contest in which BJP with its combination of upper castes, non-Yadav OBCs and non-Jatav Dalits would remain a formidable force.

After videos of EVM movement goes viral in Uttar Pradesh, SP-BSP put workers on vigil

UP's Chief Electoral Officer Venkateshwarlu allayed fears of tampering of EVMs. "All apprehensions are unfounded," he said

SP's bicycle will 'puncture' under weight of BSP's elephant: Adityanath

Listing the 'good work' done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Adityanath said, 'Whatever welfare schemes we have implemented so far, we did not discriminate people in the name of caste and religion. These were implemented in the interest of the poor.'

Mahagathbandhan's prospects to improve in next two phases: Mayawati

Mayawati appealed to the voters to ensure a historic win for Yadav, who is the joint opposition candidate from the Azamgarh seat held by the SP in the outgoing Lok Sabha.

Mayawati takes dig at PM Modi

In another tweet, Mayawati said everyone knows that the Bahujan Samaj Partry (BSP) respects women.

Elect SP-BSP candidates to undo the wrongs of Congress, BJP governments: Mayawati

At an election meeting in Siddharthnagar district in favour of the alliance's Domariyaganj candidate Aftab Ahmad, she accused the Congress of failing to eliminate poverty.

Primary aim in UP is to defeat BJP, helping SP or BSP where candidates not strong: Rahul Gandhi

Gandhi's remarks echoed the views of his sister and party general secretary in-charge eastern Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who had said on May 1 that her party has fielded candidates either with prospects of victory or having potential to damage the BJP's chances.

Samajwadi Party has turned Azamgarh into 'stronghold of terrorism': Yogi Adityanath

The Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) have crime in their DNA, he said, while addressing an election meeting here in support of BJP's Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat candidate Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua'.

BJP to meet the Congress fate in elections: Mayawati

Kicking off her party's election campaign in Odisha at a rally here, the BSP supremo held both the BJP and the Congress responsible for the miseries of weaker section of the society and also growth of terrorism in the country.

BSP announces candidates for 6 Chhattisgarh Lok Sabha seats

The announcement was made by the Mayawati-led party's state unit chief Hemant Poyam.

After alliance with SP-BSP, RLD looks to revive itself in west UP

In 2014, the defeat of the then Union minister and Rashtriya Lok Dal president Ajit Singh in Baghpat to BJP's Satyapal Singh, who had resigned as Mumbai Police commissioner just before the election, was "unexpected" for many as he had never lost the seat since 1999.

Mayawati gives final touches to list of BSP nominees for Lok Sabha polls

The BSP president held a meeting with important district and division-level leaders in Uttar Pradesh, a party release issued here said.

BSP plans to contest on all 200 assembly seats in Rajasthan

The party won three seats in the 2013-assembly elections by securing 3.37 percent vote share, which was 7.60 percent in the 2008-elections when the party had won six MLAs.