Uttar Pradesh
14 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Uttar Pradesh”, published between April 2018 and April 2019. They are filed mainly under BJP, Congress, Election commission 2019. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
How easy will Gorakhpur be for BJP candidate Ravi Kishan?
After weeks of speculation and uncertainty, the BJP named actor Ravi Kishan Shukla as its candidate for the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh. The choice followed long deliberation in a seat once seen as an unbreakable party stronghold that had become one of its most puzzling in recent times. The by-election setback For nearly three decades the seat was held by the head of the Gorakshpeeth. After Yogi Adityanath became Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 2017, the BJP lost Gorakhpur in the by-election: Nishad Party leader PravinRead More
BJP Dalit MP Ashok Dohare joins Congress, gets ticket from Etawah
Ashok Dohare, the sitting BJP member of Parliament from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, joined the Congress in New Delhi on Friday, and within hours the party announced that he would be its candidate from the same constituency. Why he left Dohare was reportedly unhappy after the BJP refused him a ticket this time. The party instead chose Ram Shankar Katheria for Etawah, shifting him from Agra. He became the second Dalit MP of the BJP to move to the Congress, following Savitri Bai Phule. A string of defections Dohare isRead More
Modi likely to contest Varanasi again in 2019 despite talk of Puri, say BJP sources
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to contest the 2019 Lok Sabha election from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh again, senior BJP sources said, even as speculation grew that he might choose the temple town of Puri in Odisha for the April-May polls. Varanasi favoured, Puri unconfirmed According to the sources, the party’s parliamentary board strongly favours a repeat contest in Varanasi. Whether Mr Modi will also stand from a second constituency, and whether that seat would be Puri, remained unclear. In an interview with the news agency ANI, the PrimeRead More
Yogi Adityanath announces Rs 50 lakh for family of constable killed in Amroha
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath announced compensation of Rs 50 lakh for the family of police constable Harsh Chaudhary, who was killed in an exchange of fire with a criminal in Amroha district on Sunday. The compensation Of the total, Rs 40 lakh was to go to the constable’s wife and Rs 10 lakh to his parents. The chief minister also announced a government job for a member of the family. Chaudhary was a native of Hathras district, and police said he would be given a state funeral. HowRead More
Akhilesh Yadav and NDA ally Rajbhar attack UP government over renaming cities
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday used a couplet on Twitter to criticise the Yogi Adityanath government for renaming cities in Uttar Pradesh, arguing that development work had stalled while only names were changing. He attached photographs of works he said had been halted. The attack came a day after a state cabinet meeting chaired by Adityanath approved renaming Faizabad as Ayodhya and Allahabad as Prayagraj. Criticism from within the NDA On the same day, the government faced a verse-laden jibe from one of its own ministers, Om PrakashRead More
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