Up Election 2022

UP Election Results 2022: Lakhimpur Kheri was expected to be a tough contest for the ruling party after eight people, including four farmers, were killed during an anti-farm law protest

BJP parliamentary board meeting likely today evening

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address party workers at the BJP headquarters in the evening, sources said.

Election Results 2022 | BJP retains UP, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur; AAP dislodges Congress in Punjab

The Election Commission has released the results of most of the constituencies, which seal a BJP win in all the poll-bound states except Punjab, where the Aam Aadmi Party has scored a landslide victory.

Uttar Pradesh Exit Poll Results 2022 | BJP set to return to power with full majority, say post-election surveys

Uttar Pradesh is considered to be the most bellwether state, as its outcome may determine the voter sentiment ahead of the 2024 general elections. UP sends 80 MPs to the Lok Sabha - the most of any states across the country.

UP Assembly Election 2022 | Parties campaign extensively ahead of last phase of polls

Leaders of the BJP, Congress, BSP, SP and TMC geared up to campaign ahead of the last phase of UP elections 2022.

UP Election 2022: PM Modi to hold roadshow in Varanasi today

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav is also slated to hold a roadshow in Varanasi in evening.

UP Elections 2022 | Here's why Phase 4 of polling on February 23 is crucial for BJP, Congress

For the BJP, which won 51 of the 59 seats in 2017, the challenge would be to retain seats in the Terai region where its MP, Varun Gandhi, has been critical of the state as well as the Union government on a host of issues

UP Assembly election phase 4: 231 candidates are crorepatis, 1 has declared zero assets

AAP candidate Vijay Kumar from the Khaga (SC) constituency has declared zero assets in his self-sworn affidavit.

Voting patterns can’t be termed polarisation, UP election not about Muslims or Hindus: Amit Shah

Shah said that UP elections were not about Muslims, Yadavs or Hindus and that Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath may have been referring to voting percentages in his “80-20” remark.

Assembly Elections 2022 | 69.65 % voter turnout in Punjab, 61.61 % in 59 seats of Uttar Pradesh

As per the updated figure, Punjab witnessed a voter turnout of 69.65 percent, while the third phase in Uttar Pradesh registered 61.61 percent voting on February 20.

UP Election 2022 enters 'Yadav belt' in 3rd phase of polling on Sunday

At least eight districts in the region going to polls on February 20 were Yadav strongholds, at least until 2017 elections when the BJP secured a clinching victory by bagging 312 of the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh

UP Election 2022 | Parties go full-throttle in battle for Bundelkhand

After the BJP swept the region and won all the seats in 2017, the Congress, the SP and the BSP are trying to make inroads into Bundelkhand this time

UP Election 2022: Piyush Goyal targets Samajwadi Party, says BJP's policy cannot be understood by a party that thinks "for a family only"

At a press conference here, he alleged the Samajwadi party ran a government of goons, mafias and criminals and it is only the BJP which can think about the interest of the 24-crore people of the state.

Nearly two dozen BJP leaders, candidates get security cover in Punjab, UP until elections

According to sources, a similar step was taken by the central government in view of threat perception to various BJP candidates in West Bengal during assembly elections.

UP Election 2022 | Fighting to restore the honour of my husband: Subhavati Shukla, ex BJP leader’s wife, challenges Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur Urban

The widow of a BJP politician throws down the gauntlet to the UP CM in his bastion in an assembly election in which the caste factor is in play

UP Elections 2022 | Muslim women feel safe under BJP rule, PM Modi says in Kanpur amid Hijab row

The back-to-back remarks on Muslim women in poll rallies by Prime Minister Modi assume significance because of sizeable population of the minority community in the region voting in first two of the seven phases of UP election. Addressing a rally in Saharanpur on February 10, in a similar reach out, the prime minister had hit out at the Opposition for instigating Muslim women and finding new ways to stop their aspirations

Refrain from violating the silence period, Election Commission tells media

The poll panel’s reminder comes on the day when all seats in Goa, Uttarakhand and 55 seats in Uttar Pradesh are being voted for

UP Assembly Polls | Constitution will prevail over Sharia Law: Yogi Adityanath on Hijab row

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made the remarks in response to AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi's remark that Hijab is a fundamental right and that one day a hijab-clad girl will become the Prime Minister of India.

UP Election 2022 | Opposition trying to instigate Muslim women : PM Narendra Modi in Saharanpur addressing his first physical rally

PM Narendra Modi remarks come amid an on-going political slugfest in Karnataka over the use of Hijab by Muslim girls in classrooms in the state continued with protests intensifying in the state. The PM, however, did not refer to the row directly.

Network18 Exclusive | Nitin Gadkari: Common people have faith in Yogi Adityanath; BJP to win UP with absolute majority

In an exclusive interview with News18, the BJP leader credited Yogi Adityanath for getting the state of the gundaraaj prevalent in previous governments under Samajwadi Party (SP).

UP Election 2022: PM Narendra Modi urges people to cast votes

Remember that "pahle matdan, phir jalpan" (First vote, then have breakfast), Modi tweeted.

Free country from all fears, come out and vote: Rahul Gandhi to people

Polling for 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts in the western part of the state began in the morning.

Interview | Nitin Gadkari: Politics of compulsions, convenience not good for democracy

Nitin Gadkari said, while the difference in opinion was understandable, but 'zero ideology' of leaders was a big problem that Indian democracy is facing today. The need, he said, was to make politics ideology-based to prevent leaders from changing parties.

MC Election Update Today January 28: PM Modi to hold first virtual rally on Jan 31; AAP releases 6th list of candidates for Uttarakhand

Take a quick look at all the major updates on upcoming assembly elections in five states -- Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.

UP Election 2022 | Asaduddin Owaisi's AIMIM fields Pandit Manmohan Jha Gama from Ghaziabad

Gama, who joined AIMIM a few days ago after serving Samajwadi Party for 22 years, said, "SP is the party of capitalists; after serving 22 years in the party we did not get any rights".