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  Yogi Adityanath defies ban to address rally in Lucknow

  Politics | September 10, 2014 23:31 IST

  Lucknow: BJP's star campaigner for the Uttar Pradesh assembly by-polls and Lok Sabha member from Gorakhpur Yogi Adityanath Wednesday flouted a ban imposed on a meeting here and addressed party supporters.Having being denied permission to

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  Government distances from UP BJP chief's controversial remarks

  Politics | September 09, 2014 23:04 IST

  New Delhi: Disagreeing with the reported statement of Uttar Pradesh BJP president Laxmikant Bajpayi on Muslims, Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu today said rape and terror has no religion.“Certainly, if at all he said this,

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  Will Lalu-Nitish reunion thaw ice between Maya-Mulayam in UP? Unlikely

  Politics | August 14, 2014 14:55 IST

  Lucknow: Will RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav's political embrace with arch rival Nitish Kumar in Bihar be replicated by Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav in Uttar Pradesh? Just days after the former Bihar chief minister

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  'Akhilesh playing politics of vendetta against BJP'

  Politics | July 27, 2014 14:06 IST

  Lucknow: He is possibly the only one from the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh to have the ears of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Accredited with the groundwork for the party's unprecedented success in the

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  BJP seeks home ministry's intervention in Uttar Pradesh

  Politics | June 02, 2014 13:00 IST

  Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has sought the union home ministry's intervention in the failing law and order situation in the state, a party leader said Monday.This follows a

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  Bajpayi likely to be Uttar Pradesh BJP chief

  Politics | November 30, 2012 10:39 IST

  Lucknow, Nov 30: The state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to elect its new president in the next two days. Insiders say that the election of Laxmikant Bajpayi to the post

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  BJP to launch anti-Congress CD campaign in UP

  Politics | September 08, 2012 16:09 IST

  Lucknow, Sep 8: Following its central leadership, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh has decided to launch an audiovisual campaign across the state against the Congress on its "complicity" in corruption scandals and