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Mamata Banerjee - on a mission to build a platform to challenge the BJP in 2024 - may have another friendly face to count on, after Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said he might be open to joining an opposition front led by the Trinamool.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday accused the previous state governments of conspiring to sell off cooperative sugar mills and targeted them for filing "one-sided cases" during riots.

In a sharp attack on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today asked a cheering crowd at an election rally if they wanted a "Yogi Sarkar or Yogya Sarkar (able government)".

The BJP has announced a series of 'yatras' in Uttar Pradesh to galvanise party cadres ahead of the crucial state assembly elections next year. The party's Uttar Pradesh chief Swatantra Dev Singh made the announcement on his Twitter handle today.

BSP chief Mayawati today charged that the Centre is ignoring the demand for a caste census due to its "casteist mentality".

Two former Uttar Pradesh ministers, three ex-MLAs and several leaders from other parties joined the BJP in Lucknow on Sunday.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh here on Saturday said Uttar Pradesh does not want "bua or babua", apparently referring to BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Pary chief Akhilesh Yadav.

With just months to go for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to farmers and voters in the western part of the state today, as he laid the foundation stone for the Noida International Airport.

Rebel UP Congress leader Aditi Singh - the MLA from the state's Rae Bareli Sadar Assembly constituency - has joined the ruling BJP in Lucknow, just months before elections in the politically key state.

The BJP-led central government would not have decided to repeal the three contentious farm laws had there been no elections scheduled in Uttar Pradesh and other states in the near future, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar alleged.

BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday paid obeisance at the Namdev gurdwara and asserted that no other leader has done the kind of work that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done for the Sikh community.

Claiming that governments under her rule did "innumerable historic work" for the development of UP, BSP chief Mayawati accused subsequent Samajwadi Party and BJP dispensations of taking credit for projects that were conceptualised earlier.

In the two-day tour to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Baba Namdev Gurudwara in Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur on Tuesday.

Ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, BJP chief JP Nadda and other national leaders of the party held a meeting with senior leaders from the state, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said if her party wins the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, skill development schools will be opened in every district in the name of 'veeranganas' like freedom fighter Jhalkari Bai.

Mamata Banerjee - on a mission to build a platform to challenge the BJP in 2024 - may have another friendly face to count on, after Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav said he might be open to joining an opposition front led by the Trinamool.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday accused the previous state governments of conspiring to sell off cooperative sugar mills and targeted them for filing "one-sided cases" during riots.

In a sharp attack on Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today asked a cheering crowd at an election rally if they wanted a "Yogi Sarkar or Yogya Sarkar (able government)".

The BJP has announced a series of 'yatras' in Uttar Pradesh to galvanise party cadres ahead of the crucial state assembly elections next year. The party's Uttar Pradesh chief Swatantra Dev Singh made the announcement on his Twitter handle today.

BSP chief Mayawati today charged that the Centre is ignoring the demand for a caste census due to its "casteist mentality".

Two former Uttar Pradesh ministers, three ex-MLAs and several leaders from other parties joined the BJP in Lucknow on Sunday.

Defense Minister Rajnath Singh here on Saturday said Uttar Pradesh does not want "bua or babua", apparently referring to BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Pary chief Akhilesh Yadav.

With just months to go for the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly election, Prime Minister Narendra Modi reached out to farmers and voters in the western part of the state today, as he laid the foundation stone for the Noida International Airport.

Rebel UP Congress leader Aditi Singh - the MLA from the state's Rae Bareli Sadar Assembly constituency - has joined the ruling BJP in Lucknow, just months before elections in the politically key state.

The BJP-led central government would not have decided to repeal the three contentious farm laws had there been no elections scheduled in Uttar Pradesh and other states in the near future, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar alleged.

BJP president J P Nadda on Tuesday paid obeisance at the Namdev gurdwara and asserted that no other leader has done the kind of work that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has done for the Sikh community.

Claiming that governments under her rule did "innumerable historic work" for the development of UP, BSP chief Mayawati accused subsequent Samajwadi Party and BJP dispensations of taking credit for projects that were conceptualised earlier.

In the two-day tour to poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Jagat Prakash Nadda and state Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath visited Baba Namdev Gurudwara in Kidwai Nagar, Kanpur on Tuesday.

Ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, BJP chief JP Nadda and other national leaders of the party held a meeting with senior leaders from the state, including Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said if her party wins the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, skill development schools will be opened in every district in the name of 'veeranganas' like freedom fighter Jhalkari Bai.