Fielding Yogi from Gorakhpur will also help party maintain hold on other seats in region, BJP hopesParty insiders say Adityanath had campaigned vigorously in the 2017 polls in the region which had helped the saffron party win 44 of the 62...
30 Jan, 2022, 03.17 PM IST
Will beat Yogi to repeat 1971 history when CM lost from Gorakhpur: Chandra Shekhar AazadUndaunted by the prospect of taking on Yogi Adiyanath in his stronghold, Azad Samaj Party president Chandra Shekhar Aazad says the people o...
27 Jan, 2022, 01.55 PM IST
BJP names 107 candidates for UP polls, fields Yogi Adityanath from GorakhpurExcept for Adityanath and Maurya, all the names are for 105 of the 113 seats which will go to the polls in the first two phases on February...
15 Jan, 2022, 03.00 PM IST
Rahul, Priyanka slam UP govt, say caste violence, crimes against women risingThe Uttar Pradesh police has invoked the stringent National Security Act against four persons in connection with the village head's killing...
17 Aug, 2020, 02.14 PM IST
BJP terms UP win as 'even more significant' than 2014 sweepThe icing on the cake is Union leader Smriti Irani winning against Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi by a margin of 55,000 seats.
24 May, 2019, 08.50 AM IST
Mayawati to campaign for long-time rival Mulayam in Mainpuri on Apr 19Mayawati and Akhilesh will hold 11 joint rallies in places such as Faizabad (Ayodhya) and PM’s constituency Varanasi.
16 Mar, 2019, 07.58 AM IST
If BJP has guts, throw me out of the alliance: Om Prakash RajbharState BJP president Mahendra Nath Pandey has called Rajbhar a “necessary evil”. At an interview in Delhi, Rajbhar spoke to Prerna Katiyar o...
08 Dec, 2018, 11.00 PM IST
Kairana bypoll: How BJP plans to ensure no repeat of Gorakhpur, Phulpur debaclesBypoll might have been swung by the Jats, who backed BJP in both 2014 and 2017, but the sugarcane dues in the region and Ajit Singh’s latch...
22 May, 2018, 11.46 PM IST
He’s no ‘Yogi’, will just call him Adityanath, says CongressWhile individual leaders do make statements, “communications department” is the opposition party’s interlocutor with public, issuing its of...
12 Apr, 2018, 11.19 AM IST
Safeguard Dalit and backward votes: RSS to Uttar Pradesh BJPWith the SP-BSP alliance, which count backward communities and Dalits as their main supporters, the caste arithmetic has turned formidable ...
06 Apr, 2018, 10.48 AM IST
Mayawati hits back at BJP, says ties with SP not selfishShe said the non-BJP parties should come together to address the problems suffered by the common people, including the poor and the youth b...
26 Mar, 2018, 06.06 PM IST
We will expose 'double-barrel' corruption & lawlessness of SP-BSP: BJPET spoke to senior UP Ministers, close aides of the CM and key BJP strategists who said that they would remind people of the corruption and...
19 Mar, 2018, 07.51 PM IST
SP hints at alliance with BSP in future; BJP slams bypoll 'tie-up'The Samajwadi Party, while sounding optimistic about BSP's decision, said that "today's understanding" will culminate into a "poll alliance...
05 Mar, 2018, 05.50 PM IST
ST Panel summons UP Chief Secretary over fake caste certificates allegationsIt has been alleged that people belonging to Brahmin Naik and Brahmin Ojha castes have taken fake caste certificates of Gond tribe and got ...
05 Aug, 2017, 12.08 AM IST
Issue of division of Uttar Pradesh back in focusGorakhpur is the hub of eastern UP or Purvanchal, the area which is considered to have lagged behind in development.
27 Feb, 2017, 02.46 PM IST
Una atrocity still plays on Dalit mindsOpinion against the saffron camp has especially sharpened in poll bound states of UP , Punjab and Gujarat, where Dalits have tended to vote...
11 Aug, 2016, 11.41 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls 2014: ‘IRS senior’ Udit Raj targets Arvind Kejriwal"I was Kejriwal's senior in IRS. There, he failed to take steps to improve the revenue or catch tax evaders," Udit Raj told a public meetin...
25 Mar, 2014, 11.54 AM IST