Akhilesh Yadav

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath is contesting his first assembly election from the Gorakhpur Sadar constituency. Moneycontrol examines the factors that make the contest special

Akhilesh Yadav also took a dig at Union Home Minister Amit Shah over his reported promise of providing laptops to those who take “admission in Inter after passing class 12.”

Union home minister Amit Shah’s exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi that aired on Monday, has, not unexpectedly, created quite a buzz in political circles, particularly against the backdrop of the ongoing elections in five states and the swirling hijab row.

Uttar Pradesh Elections 2022 Phase 4 Voting | With eight seats, Lakhimpur Kheri district poses a challenge to the ruling BJP. Though all the seats are held by the BJP, the recent bail to Ashish Mishra, the son of Union minister Ajay Mishra ‘Teni’, who was arrested in connection with the violence that killed eight people, will test the ruling party

Predicting that Akhilesh Yadav will lose from SP bastion Karhal, Anurag Thakur also claimed that the SP’s ‘gunda raj’ will be rejected by the people this election.

The "Bulldozer" reference was taken by the Adityanath government to vacate illegally occupied land and properties using a bulldozer.

Akhilesh Yadav probably doesn’t know that I have been monitoring the functioning of government schemes through an e-dashboard installed in my office as well as residence, the chief minister said.

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

In the first two phases of polls in the state, voting was held on the 113 constituencies and 59 seats each will go to polls in the third phase on February 20 and fourth phase on February 23.

Yogi Adityanath was in Jhansi on Wednesday evening to campaign for BJP candidates and also take out a roadshow. .

Addressing an election rally in Rae Bareli, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said the funds for ration has not been earmarked in "Delhi's budget as they know that the election will end in March."

UP assembly elections 2022: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav claimed that there was historic voting for his party and its ally, the Rashtriya Lok Dal, in the first two phases of the polls.

UP Assembly Elections Highlights: In the first phase, the voting took place in 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts in the western part of Uttar Pradesh. A voter turnout of 60.17 percent was recorded till 6 pm, according to Election Commission of India.

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UP elections 2022: Akhilesh Yadav, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra smiled and waved at each other as their roadshows crossed paths in UP.

This will be Yadav’s first visit to the Noida Gautam Buddha Nagar district which he avoided as chief minister between 2012 and 2017 purportedly because of the ‘jinx’ associated with the town neighboring Delhi

A former security officer with ex- chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and a professor of military science, Baghel is a four-time MP who was earlier a minister in UP government as well.

The Defence Minister also lauded current Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for not letting any riots to take place during the tenure.

The Samajwadi Party chief said his "helicopter has been stopped from flying without any specified reason". On the other hand, a "senior BJP leader" was allowed to fly, he alleged.

UP Assembly elections: Pawan Pandey, Samajwadi Party's candidate from Ayodhya, said his daughter gets ready for campaigns in the morning even before he does.