Uttar Pradesh Assembly Election 2017

Cabinet reshuffle: MA Naqvi's elevation may please Muslim voters, but Anant Kumar Hegde could play spoilsport

The nascent support for BJP among Muslims may come to a nought with the induction of Hindutva hard liners like Anant Kumar Hegde in the Cabinet

Yogi Adityanath's outbursts reveal CM's priority is in asserting religion, not being an able administrator

Going by the recent provocative statements of Yogi Adityanath, it's clear that assertion of religious identity is more important to the Uttar Pradesh chief minister than social harmony

Akhilesh Yadav needs lessons on patriotism: Politicising soldiers' deaths shows how nation comes last for SP president

Akhilesh Yadav raked in another controversy on Wednesday asking why no soldiers are dying from Gujarat on a day when terrorists abducted and killed 22-year-old Lieutenant Ummer Fayaz in Shopian district of Jammu and Kashmir

Congress, BJP takes a dig at Mulayam Singh, says SP patron's words and actions don't match

A day after Mulayam Singh Yadav blamed Indian National Congress for the loss in Uttar Pradesh polls, the party hit back saying the Samajwadi Party (SP) patron's words and actions do not match and that he had always drifted away when attempts to form a joint front against "communal" forces were made.

MCD Election 2017: Arvind Kejriwal should end EVM blame game, learn from Shiv Sena on being better loser

Arvind Kejriwal has expressed the hope that “good people who had left the party will return to its fold”. It’s a different thing if the good people who had moved away may now find the party to be too bad to get back.

Gayatri Prajapati rape case: Former UP minister granted bail by POCSO court

Lucknow: Former UP minister Gayatri Prajapati and his two accomplices were Tuesday granted bail by a POCSO court here in connection with a rape case.

EVM tampering: Opposition parties have failed to take defeat sportingly, put EC image in dock

The shrillness with which the 16 political parties are alleging EVM tampering essentially suggests that they have not reconciled to the defeat in recent rounds of Assembly and local bodies elections.

Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur: UP CM invokes Spiderman, says with great power comes great responsibility

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asked BJP office bearers and public representatives not to undertake any contractual work, and instead monitor them for effective execution

Yogi Adityanath as Uttar Pradesh CM: Modi is performing the last rites of Nehruvian secularism

Narendra Modi is now removing the 'idea of India' and replacing it with another — one that has its roots in the ancient Dharmic tradition of pluralism as opposed to the European brand of secularism

Yogi Adityanath as UP CM: From the ashes of pseudo-secularism rises the phoenix of hardline Hindutva

Had the UP mandate been the result of a Hindutva agenda, Adityanath's appointment would have been interpreted as a natural, obvious step. But the referendum was on Modi and his vikas agenda