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UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath to rename Allahabad as ‘Prayagraj’
UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s announcement of changing the name of Allahabad to Prayagraj has drawn protests from the Congress and the Samajwadi Party. While receiving mixed reaction from intellectuals, teachers, literary persons, lawyers and politicians in the Sangam city. While the Congress has said that the change would diminish the importance that Allahabad had in the country’s freedom movement. And it does not make sense. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Monday alleged that Adityanath government’s proposed move was another example of its trait for “renaming”. Today’s rulers were tryingRead More
For 2019 Election Polls Congress Sticks To Shiva , BJP To Ram, SP Picks Vishnu For Goodluck!
Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the key political parties of Uttar Pradesh seem to have chosen their favourite lords. With the BJP apparently sticking to Lord Ram, the Samajwadi Party seems to have chosen Vishnu and the Congress Lord Shiva to spur their poll fortunes, if remarks by their leaders are any indication. Congress president Rahul Gandh, fresh from his Mansarovar Yatra, was greeted in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi this week by hundreds of ‘bol bam’-chanting party activists, all dressed up as “Kanwariyas”, the devotees of LordRead More
Congress to give third blow to Mayawati, BSP May Form Alliance With SP and Left in Rajasthan
BSP supremo Mayawati may form a third front with the Samajwadi Party and the Communist Party of India to take on the BJP and the Congress in the upcoming Rajasthan elections. CPI national secretary Atul Kumar Anjan, who is also party’s in charge of Rajasthan. This would be the third blow to opposition unity ahead of the general elections next year. She had on Thursday announced a tie-up with Congress rebel Ajit Jogi in Chhattisgarh, forcing Congress to say it will fight the elections alone in the state. In Madhya PradeshRead More
At Noida Rally, Shatrughan & Yashwant Sinha Share Stage with Aam Aadmi Party’s
Aam Aadmi Party At Noida Rally, Saturday’s rally was organised to mark the end of AAP leader Sanjay Singh and his team’s 250 kilometre padyatra that started from Saharanpur and culminated in Noida. The rally, which comes in the backdrop of both the AAP and the BJP gearing up for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Also saw Delhi chief minister asking Yashwant Sinha to contest the polls from Uttar Pradesh. In a rally greeted by thundershowers on Saturday evening in Noida, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shatrughan Sinha and formerRead More
Uttar Pradesh Election News: Small Parties Pitch Themselves As Game Changers!!
In the assembly polls, smaller political outfits play a key role in transferring their “dedicated” vote bank to their allies, but in Lok Sabha elections such parties have traditionally struggled to make a big impact. In uttar pradesh election news, Small parties such as the NISHAD Party, Apna Dal(S) and AIMIM may not account for many Lok Sabha seats in 2019, but are pitching themselves as potential “game changers” in the BJP versus opposition battle in the state. However, several parties such as the NISHAD Party, Peace Party, Apna DalRead More