Up Polls 2017

UP Election 2017: EC to soon decide on Samajwadi Party's 'cycle' symbol based on precedents, principles

The Election Commission will soon take a view based on precedents and set principles on the dispute over the cycle poll symbol, on which two factions in the Samajwadi Party have staked claims.

UP election 2017: Discord between Samajwadi Party and Mayawati will boost BJP's chances in state

Understandably, Mayawati who had thus far been marching ahead of others on the Muslim front, especially in Western Uttar Pradesh, looks at the new development with suspicion.

PM Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi trade barbs over black money, corruption

The war of words between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress Vice President heated up on Thursday.

Mayawati finds Akhilesh govt's decision to include 17 castes in SC list as 'condemnable'

Terming the Akhilesh Yadav government's assent to include 17 Other Backward Castes in the SC list as a "mere drama", BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday said the decision is both "unfortunate and condemnable" and aimed at deceiving these communities.

UP Battleground: Rahul Gandhi in Jaunpur slams PM Modi for 'sucking blood' of 99% poor Indians

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi slammed PM Narendra Modi's demonetisation drive at his rally in UP's Jaunpur on Monday

Arvind Kejriwal says UP voters will punish Narendra Modi for 'anti-people' note ban

Terming demonetisation as a "conspiracy" of BJP and the Prime Minister, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said people of Uttar Pradesh, "who made Narendra Modi the PM", will now teach BJP a lesson for the "anti-people" step.

Samajwadi Party crisis: Shivpal sacks CM Akhilesh Yadav's aide Pawan Pandey from the party

Pawan Pandey, Uttar Pradesh government minister and a close aide of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, was on Wednesday sacked from the Samajwadi Party.

Akhilesh Yadav is fantastic CM but needs time to become a mass leader: Amar Singh

Amar Singh denied allegations that he was trying to destroy the party and said Akhilesh Yadav was a fantastic CM but he needed time to become a mass leader.

UP polls: Bihar CM Nitish Kumar holds strategic meet of JD(U) leaders

A day after the JD(U) national council meeting which ratified his election as the new party president, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Tuesday met senior party leaders to draw strategy for the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Ram temple issue bounces back in poll-bound UP, 'not BJP's political agenda' says Mahesh Sharma

Ahead of UP polls and despite assertions that "Ramayana museum" being planned for the communally-sensitive town of Ayodhya "is not the political agenda" of BJP, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma on Tuesday said fortunate are those who get a chance to do "Ram ka kaam" (serve Ram).