Kairana Bypolls 2018

Kairana bypolls: Shamli traders threaten to boycott by-election if authorities don't agree to construct a bypass

Delayed payments by sugarcane mills, simmering communal tension and consolidation of the Opposition vote may be the bigger themes in the Kairana Lok Sabha by-election.

Uttar Pradesh's sugarcane farmers crippled by debts, unproductive crop as mills fail to clear outstanding payments

Even today, sugarcane mills owe an outstanding payment of over Rs 13,367 crores to the farmers, but the government is ignorant to the woes of the farmers.

Kairana bypoll: Discussed 'practical' ways with Akhilesh Yadav to counter BJP, says RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary

The bypolls in Uttar Pradesh's Kairana are scheduled for 28 May and the RLD, with support from the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), has fielded Tabassum Hasan.