UP Elections

However, the poll body has allowed some relaxation in the number of people allowed at meetings and election campaigning.  

Hitting out at Akhilesh Yadav, PM Modi said, “During previous govt when western UP was burning due to riots, those in power were celebrating. Traders were looted and daughters couldn't come out of their homes five years ago in UP,” he added.

The BJP seems to have made significant changes in the districts of Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, and Sant Kabir Nagar in eastern UP where Adityanath has influence.  

Khan, who has been imprisoned in Sitapur since February 2020 on charges of land grabbing and other offences, has submitted his nomination for the Rampur Sadar seat.

Maurya said Samajwadi Party is unable to prevent the BJP's lotus from growing in the state. He said the SP's list of candidates for the next elections demonstrates that it is not a political party but a party of gangsters, criminals, and mafias. 

The media center is being prepared on the lines of a war room, in which TV, WiFi and Internet as well as laptop and computer facilities will be available.

Akhilesh Yadav, the head of the Samajwadi Party, will run from Karhal, while his uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav will run from Jaswantnagar and party leader Abdullah Azam Khan from Suar.

For instance, BJP leader and MLA from Fatehabad Jitendra Verma Jitendra Varma jumped ship to SP as he was denied a ticket and the saffron party fielded another candidate in his place for the upcoming elections.

Noting that Rai was in the BJP earlier, party’s state unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh said his return to the party was ‘ghar wapsi’ which will strengthen it in the region.

Taking to Twitter, the BSP supremo stated that the Congress party's situation is so bad that its CM face for the UP elections changed her mind within a few hours.