Rita Bahuguna

A Lucknow court on Friday sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi to six months' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,100 for violating the code of conduct during the 2012 UP assembly elections.

As the Congress's wipeout in five states yesterday reinforced its shrinking size in Indian politics, two of its alums who are now BJP leaders contrasted the working styles of the rival parties.

Ahead of the last phase of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Mayank Joshi, son of BJPMP Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Saturday joined the Samajwadi Party (SP).

BJP today announced candidates for all nine Lucknow seats after a long discussion.

The high-profile Lucknow Cantonment seat, where both Ms Yadav and Mr Joshi were hoping to be nominated, has been given to state minister Brijesh Pathak.

BJP MP and a senior leader from Uttar Pradesh Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Wednesday said that she is patiently waiting for the decision of the party's top leadership about her proposal sent to BJP chief JP Nadda for giving ticket to her son.

BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi today said her son, who is seeking the party's ticket to fight the UP elections, has the right to do so even as she maintained that she is not lobbying for his candidature.

A controversy erupted over the induction of ex-BSP MLA Jitendra Singh Bablu into the BJP on Wednesday, with party MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi alleging that he was involved in the torching of her house in 2009 and demanding cancellation of his membership.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot is in Delhi to try and meet with the party leadership on demands that he says have remained unresolved months after he was promised a solution.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot, in the spotlight after his former colleague Jitin Prasada crossed over to the BJP, today rubbished a BJP leader's comment that he was next. He also denied receiving any feelers from the BJP.

BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's six-year-old granddaughter died of burn injuries early this morning in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj. The child suffered burns reportedly from crackers on Monday.

Rita Bahuguna Joshi, BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh, is among the leaders is now a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new cabinet that took oath this evening in a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

AAP's Bhawani Nath Valmiki, popularly known as Bhawani Ma, is contesting against BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Rajendra Pratap Singh of Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance.

Aparna Yadav, the younger daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav and a Samajwadi Party candidate who lost against the BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi in the 2017 UP election, says had Priyanka been projected as the chief ministerial face, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance would have done much better.

Uttar Pradesh's Tourism and Family Welfare Minister and former Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Saturday made light of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's entry into politics, saying "she was neither young anymore nor effective".

A Lucknow court on Friday sentenced Bharatiya Janata Party MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi to six months' imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 1,100 for violating the code of conduct during the 2012 UP assembly elections.

As the Congress's wipeout in five states yesterday reinforced its shrinking size in Indian politics, two of its alums who are now BJP leaders contrasted the working styles of the rival parties.

Ahead of the last phase of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Mayank Joshi, son of BJPMP Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Saturday joined the Samajwadi Party (SP).

BJP today announced candidates for all nine Lucknow seats after a long discussion.

The high-profile Lucknow Cantonment seat, where both Ms Yadav and Mr Joshi were hoping to be nominated, has been given to state minister Brijesh Pathak.

BJP MP and a senior leader from Uttar Pradesh Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Wednesday said that she is patiently waiting for the decision of the party's top leadership about her proposal sent to BJP chief JP Nadda for giving ticket to her son.

BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi today said her son, who is seeking the party's ticket to fight the UP elections, has the right to do so even as she maintained that she is not lobbying for his candidature.

A controversy erupted over the induction of ex-BSP MLA Jitendra Singh Bablu into the BJP on Wednesday, with party MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi alleging that he was involved in the torching of her house in 2009 and demanding cancellation of his membership.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot is in Delhi to try and meet with the party leadership on demands that he says have remained unresolved months after he was promised a solution.

Congress leader Sachin Pilot, in the spotlight after his former colleague Jitin Prasada crossed over to the BJP, today rubbished a BJP leader's comment that he was next. He also denied receiving any feelers from the BJP.

BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's six-year-old granddaughter died of burn injuries early this morning in Uttar Pradesh's Prayagraj. The child suffered burns reportedly from crackers on Monday.

Rita Bahuguna Joshi, BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh, is among the leaders is now a part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's new cabinet that took oath this evening in a grand ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.

AAP's Bhawani Nath Valmiki, popularly known as Bhawani Ma, is contesting against BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Rajendra Pratap Singh of Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance.

Aparna Yadav, the younger daughter-in-law of Mulayam Singh Yadav and a Samajwadi Party candidate who lost against the BJP's Rita Bahuguna Joshi in the 2017 UP election, says had Priyanka been projected as the chief ministerial face, the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance would have done much better.

Uttar Pradesh's Tourism and Family Welfare Minister and former Congress chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Saturday made light of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's entry into politics, saying "she was neither young anymore nor effective".