Uttar Pradesh Elections 2017

The SP's Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister before Yogi Adityanath took over in 2017, said the BJP has seen the writing on the wall. A realisation that his party will lose power in 2022 has prompted a change in the incumbent's language.

A challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election as MP last year from the Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh was rejected by the Supreme Court today.

The BJP's hold on the map of India has shrunk. In 2017, after the party's spectacular victory in Uttar Pradesh and Nitish Kumar's return to the NDA, the political map of the country was swathed in saffron.

Yogi Adityanath has finally removed minister OP Rajbhar, an estranged BJP ally who had wanted out a month ago. Mr Rajbhar, who had been part of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh since 2017, had publicly criticized the Chief Minister for nearly a year.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pointed out what he called a flaw in how Congress president Rahul Gandhi offered prayers at Somnath temple in Gujarat in November 2017, a month before assembly elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

Issuing a threat to the BJP, one of its allies in Uttar Pradesh - the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party said on Sunday it will part ways with the party if the recommendations of the Social Justice Committee are not implemented by February 24.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday predicted that the upcoming parliamentary elections will see the BJP repeat its performance in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and 2017 assembly elections in the state.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra could have made a major difference in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections if she had decided to take the plunge into politics over three years ago, Janata Dal-United vice-president Prashant Kishor said on Wednesday.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that despite his "immense respect" for Congress president Rahul Gandhi, the grand old party was kept out of the Samajwadi Party-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to correct the "poll arithmetic" in order to defeat the BJP.

Since the BJP came to power in 2014 general elections with a massive mandate - 282 of Lok Sabha's 543 seats -- the party has lost six seats in subsequent by-elections. The last of these defeats came yesterday, when the party lost the prestigious Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats of Uttar Pradesh - vacated in 2017 by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and hi...

As the Bhartiya Janta Party gets into battle mode in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 general elections with Amit Shah launching a programme to induct first time voters into the party in Varanasi on Saturday, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav today said he would like to contest 2019 general elections from Kannauj constituency. Kannauj is presently...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath observed that the people of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had proved beyond a point that they were for positive and development oriented politics.

Even as BSP supremo Mayawati advocated the use of ballot paper in future elections instead of EVMs, data released by the State Election Commission based on the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh civic polls showed that the BSP fared poorly where paper ballots were used.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the 14 recently-elected mayors of the state

Boosted by the BJP victory in the civic polls in Uttar Pradesh and the upturn in the nation's economic growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today suggested a repeat in assembly polls in Gujarat where his party, the BJP, has ruled for 22 straight years. "We saw what happened there in the local elections. Congress was wiped out. UP knows the Congress...

The SP's Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister before Yogi Adityanath took over in 2017, said the BJP has seen the writing on the wall. A realisation that his party will lose power in 2022 has prompted a change in the incumbent's language.

A challenge to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's election as MP last year from the Varanasi constituency in Uttar Pradesh was rejected by the Supreme Court today.

The BJP's hold on the map of India has shrunk. In 2017, after the party's spectacular victory in Uttar Pradesh and Nitish Kumar's return to the NDA, the political map of the country was swathed in saffron.

Yogi Adityanath has finally removed minister OP Rajbhar, an estranged BJP ally who had wanted out a month ago. Mr Rajbhar, who had been part of the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh since 2017, had publicly criticized the Chief Minister for nearly a year.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath pointed out what he called a flaw in how Congress president Rahul Gandhi offered prayers at Somnath temple in Gujarat in November 2017, a month before assembly elections in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state.

Issuing a threat to the BJP, one of its allies in Uttar Pradesh - the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party said on Sunday it will part ways with the party if the recommendations of the Social Justice Committee are not implemented by February 24.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday predicted that the upcoming parliamentary elections will see the BJP repeat its performance in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls and 2017 assembly elections in the state.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra could have made a major difference in the 2017 Uttar Pradesh elections if she had decided to take the plunge into politics over three years ago, Janata Dal-United vice-president Prashant Kishor said on Wednesday.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said that despite his "immense respect" for Congress president Rahul Gandhi, the grand old party was kept out of the Samajwadi Party-BSP alliance in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections to correct the "poll arithmetic" in order to defeat the BJP.

Since the BJP came to power in 2014 general elections with a massive mandate - 282 of Lok Sabha's 543 seats -- the party has lost six seats in subsequent by-elections. The last of these defeats came yesterday, when the party lost the prestigious Gorakhpur and Phulpur seats of Uttar Pradesh - vacated in 2017 by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and hi...

As the Bhartiya Janta Party gets into battle mode in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 general elections with Amit Shah launching a programme to induct first time voters into the party in Varanasi on Saturday, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav today said he would like to contest 2019 general elections from Kannauj constituency. Kannauj is presently...

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath observed that the people of Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh had proved beyond a point that they were for positive and development oriented politics.

Even as BSP supremo Mayawati advocated the use of ballot paper in future elections instead of EVMs, data released by the State Election Commission based on the recently concluded Uttar Pradesh civic polls showed that the BSP fared poorly where paper ballots were used.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday met with Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with the 14 recently-elected mayors of the state

Boosted by the BJP victory in the civic polls in Uttar Pradesh and the upturn in the nation's economic growth, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today suggested a repeat in assembly polls in Gujarat where his party, the BJP, has ruled for 22 straight years. "We saw what happened there in the local elections. Congress was wiped out. UP knows the Congress...