Non-Yadav OBCs, unemployment, reverse migration big factors in last two phases of UP pollsThe Purvanchal region of UP is also the most backward region, second only to Bundelkhand. A sizable number of poor from this part of the st...
03 Mar, 2022, 10.08 AM IST
Turncoats spice up poll contest in Uttar PradeshTalking about the party hoppers, Sanjay Kumar, Professor and Co-Director of Lokniti, a Research Programme at the Centre for the Study of De...
13 Feb, 2022, 05.44 PM IST
UP polls: BSP releases list of 54 candidates, fields Khwaja Samsuddin against AdityanathThe Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded Santosh Tiwari from Fazilnagar assembly constituency in Kushinagar district. Tiwari will take on Samajw...
05 Feb, 2022, 01.17 PM IST
Samajwadi Party announces third list of 56 candidates for UP assembly pollsThe list names BSP turncoats Ram Achal Rajbhar and Lalji Verma from Akbarpur and Katehari seats respectively of Ambedkar Nagar, Vinay Tiwar...
27 Jan, 2022, 04.52 PM IST
Two sitting MLAs join Samajwadi Party ahead of 2022 UP Assembly pollsAhead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party got a shot in the arm on Sunday when two sitting MLAs, one ...
12 Dec, 2021, 04.02 PM IST
CBI books BSP MLA, wife in bank fraud caseThe CBI on Monday started a search operation at the residence of Chillupar (Gorakhpur) MLA Tiwari, who is son of former minister and a stro...
19 Oct, 2020, 04.03 PM IST
UP bypolls 2018: Absent Mayawati makes her presence feltOn Wednesday, Mayawati proved wrong all those ready to pen her political obituary by helping SP pull off stunning victories in Gorakhpur an...
15 Mar, 2018, 12.33 PM IST
Call him Bahubali at your own riskOver 30 years on, he sits in an offroader, part of a long cavalcade, riding past bright yellow mustard fields of Gagha, 30 km from Gorakhpu...
03 Mar, 2017, 11.08 AM IST
UP elections: Small parties to test their might in the second roundSignificant smaller players such as Peace Party, Apna Dal and Qaumi Ekta Dal will get to test their might in the second round of polling on...
11 Feb, 2012, 04.51 PM IST
UP elections: A look at the jailed mafia dons contesting the electionsSome among the dons enjoy a Robin Hood kind of image in their areas of influence, encouraging them to contest as independent candidates.
06 Feb, 2012, 02.07 AM IST
- Second phase of UP polls notification to be issued tomorrow
Notification for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly election would be issued tomorrow with which the nomination process would also ...
15 Jan, 2012, 04.30 PM IST
UP polls: Mix of politics and crime continues; parties look for muscle and caste power to win electionsThe trend of politicians recruiting criminals into their parties had started almost two decades ago. Now, it has taken deep roots.
04 Jan, 2012, 07.59 AM IST