Up Election 2017

UP Election 2017: All is not well for BJP in Varanasi as locals notice credibility gap between promise and delivery

Discussions with a variety of people in Varanasi, some of them close to the BJP were dominated by self-goals committed by the party leadership ahead of the election.

UP Election 2017: Narendra Modi's hopes of getting bonus votes in UP imaginary, says Mayawati

BSP supremo Mayawati termed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's expectation that the BJP would get 'bonus' votes as "hawa-hawai" (imaginary).

UP Election 2017: What's keeping Narendra Modi from waiving farmers' loans, asks Akhilesh

Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his poll promises, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on asked why he was waiting for the results of the state Assembly election to waive farmers' loans.

UP Election 2017: Politicians-bureaucrats-police nexus makes state a hotbed of criminalised governance

But there have been enough cases in Uttar Pradesh under the Samajwadi Party, where the state police have been forced by politicians and bureaucrats to exceed their brief and go beyond legal systems and procedures.

UP Election 2017: Narendra Modi, Akhilesh Yadav two sides of the same coin, says Owaisi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi has described Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Akhilesh Yadav as two sides of the same coin.

UP Election 2017: Have Amit Shah’s last-ditch efforts helped BJP win back its Jat vote-bank?

Amit Shah's efforts clearly show that BJP, rattled by the news of an uprising in the Jat community, have tried really hard to bring them back into its fold.

UP Election 2017: Complex caste dynamics in state most certainly predict a hung Assembly

Given the caste dynamics in UP, it is almost certain that election results will deliver a hung Assembly. All parties have already calculated this outcome.

UP Election 2017: Five reasons why Muslims don't vote the BSP in as high numbers as they should

As Uttar Pradesh prepares to elect its Assembly, it would be apposite to ask: Why don’t Muslims vote for the BSP in numbers far higher than what they do?

UP Election 2017: BJP's Dayashankar Singh's wife, Swati, strives to script history in BSP bastion

After presenting herself as a strong woman face and donning the mantle of Uttar Pradesh BJP women wing chief, Swati Singh has a tough responsibility at hand, to win the Sarojini Nagar Assembly seat which the saffron party has never won.

UP Election 2017: Is Shivpal's new party a ploy to swing public perception against SP chief Akhilesh?

Mulayam Singh Yadav and Shivpal Yadav were openly critical of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's decision to form an alliance with Congress.