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Centre could take legislative route to build Ram Temple, says UP deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya
•Keshav Prasad Maurya said if the grand Ram temple was built, it will be a "true tribute" to VHP stalwart Ashok Singhal, Mahant Sri Ramchandra Das Paramhans and karsewaks who sacrificed their lives.
Anatomy of bypolls: Lessons for Opposition, BJP and why losses could end up helping Narendra Modi in 2019
Sreemoy Talukdar •Questions will be raised on whether this social coalition or Opposition unity may hold but assuming that it does and if replicated elsewhere, this strategy may seriously challenge BJP in upcoming state elections where the saffron unit will additionally fight anti-incumbency issues.
UP by election results 2018: BJP fails to break Lok Sabha bypoll jinx as RLD's Tabassum Hasan wins in Kairana
•From Gorakhpur and Phulpur in the east to Kairana in the west, the ruling BJP has let another Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh slip away to the Opposition in a bypoll, the result of which was declared on Thursday.
Kairana bypolls: Akhilesh Yadav's 'hands stained with blood of riot victims', says UP CM Yogi Adityanath
•As campaigning in the Lok Sabha bye-election in the communally sensitive constituency picks up, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath said his predecessor Akhilesh Yadav's hands were stained with the blood of victims of the Muzaffarnagar riots.
Kairana bypolls: Lok Dal candidate Kanwar Hasan withdraws, announces support for RLD; voting scheduled for 28 May
Ians •In a major boost to opposition unity in the Kairana Lok Sabha by-election, the Lok Dal candidate who was contesting against his sister-in-law and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) nominee Tabassum Hasan, withdrew from the contest on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh.
Kairana bypoll: Yogi Adityanath addresses rally ahead of by-election, accuses Samajwadi Party of patronising criminals
Ians •Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday lashed out at the Samajwadi Party (SP) and accused it of patronising criminals and communal forces when it was in power in the state.
Kairana bypoll: Discussed 'practical' ways with Akhilesh Yadav to counter BJP, says RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary
Ankitfrancis •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.
BJP says it is confident of winning 11 of 13 seats going to polls in Uttar Pradesh legislative council
•With the filing of nominations for Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council elections coming to a close on Monday, the ruling BJP on Sunday sounded confident of bagging 11 out of 13 seats going to polls on 26 April, even as the saffron party released its list of candidates for the biennial elections.
SP-BSP combine precursor to new political experiment in UP but Akhilesh-Mayawati's social coalition might not last
Ajay Singh •There is no doubt that Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) are fighting with their back to the wall. Divided, they realised it rather late in the day that they would be facing a virtual extinction if not political obliteration altogether.
Yogi Adityanath hits out at SP and BSP, terms their tie-up a 'compromise for power'
Ians •Yogi Adityanath said on Saturday that any tie-up between the SP and the BSP to counter the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha polls cannot be dubbed as an alliance, as it would be jut a "compromise for power".