Up Assembly Elections 2017
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Alliance with Congress is one of compulsion, says Samajwadi Party leader Kiranmoy Nanda
National | Feb 15, 2017, 11:29 PM ISTSamajwadi Party national vice-president Kiranmoy Nanda said the tie-up was done to consolidate Muslim votes after the infighting in the party.
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Assembly polls: 65 per cent turnout in UP, 68 pc vote in Uttarakhand
National | Feb 24, 2017, 06:22 PM ISTOver 65 per cent voters cast their ballot in the second phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections across 67 seats on Wednesday while Uttarakhand posted a record 68 per cent turnout.
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Akhilesh most talked about candidate on Facebook
National | Feb 15, 2017, 05:02 PM ISTUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has emerged as the most talked about candidate on Facebook followed by Navjot Singh Sidhu.
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Assembly polls: Over 65 pc voter turnout in UP till 5 pm; 68 pc in Uttarakhand
National | Feb 24, 2017, 06:23 PM ISTVoting is taking place for the second phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh and for the 69 of 70 Assembly seats in the hill state of Uttarakhand.
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UP horror: 21-year-old rape survivor found dead, SP legislator booked for murder
India | Feb 14, 2017, 11:48 AM ISTSamajwadi Party MLA Arun Verma has been booked for allegedly murdering a woman who had accused him and seven others of gang-rape in 2013. Verma represents Sadar assembly seats of Sultanpur.
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Blazing guns fall silent as high-decibel campaign ends for UP phase-2, Uttarakhand polls
National | Mar 02, 2017, 05:09 PM ISTCampaigning drew to a close this evening in 67 constituencies of Uttar Pradesh for the second phase of elections as well as in 69 seats in Uttarakhand for the polls on February 15.
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Shivpal Yadav does a U-turn, says ‘not forming any new party’
National | Feb 13, 2017, 02:02 PM ISTIn a complete U-turn of sorts, senior Samajwadi Party leader Shivpal Yadav has now said that he never announced any plan to float a new political party on March 11, the day results of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls are to be declared.
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SP, Congress locked in 'unholy alliance': Amit Shah
National | Feb 13, 2017, 11:19 AM ISTBJP president Amit Shah has said that the Samjawadi Party and Congress have entered in an ‘unholy alliance to hide their failures’.
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UP polls: Congress-SP alliance will sink in BJP wave, says Uma Bharti
National | Feb 13, 2017, 08:01 AM ISTUnion Minister Uma Bharti on Sunday said the Congress-SP alliance will soon sink as Mulayam Singh Yadav had already punched a hole in it, and the rest will be done by the BJP wave in Uttar Pradesh.
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PM Modi likes 'peeping in bathrooms', Google searching: Rahul Gandhi
National | Feb 11, 2017, 04:10 PM ISTCongress vice-president Rahul Gandhi today ridiculed Prime Minister Narendra Modi for ‘peeping into others' bathrooms’ and said he was a complete ‘failure’ at the job.
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Kairana ‘exodus’: BJP MP Hukum Singh does a U-turn, says it is law and order issue
National | Feb 11, 2017, 11:46 AM ISTBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Hukum Singh, who had flagged the alleged exodus of Hindus from Kairana due to ‘fear of another community’ last June, today does a complete U-turn from his previous stand that it was a ‘communal issue’ and not related t
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UP polls: 64 pc voter turn out in first phase
National | Feb 11, 2017, 08:47 PM ISTPolling for 73 assembly constituencies spread across 15 districts in western Uttar Pradesh began at 7 am today amid tight security. A total of 2.6 crore people will exercise their franchise in the first phase of polling.
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UP polls: Rahul, Akhilesh’s road show in PM Modi’s bastion Varanasi cancelled
National | Feb 10, 2017, 01:34 PM ISTThe much-awaited road show by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Varanasi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has been cancelled.
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Priyanka to campaign against SP nominees in Amethi, Rae Bareli
National | Feb 10, 2017, 08:39 AM ISTSamajwadi Party and Congress announced their alliance for Uttar Pradesh assembly polls last month, but the political bastions of the Gandhi family – Amethi and Rae Bareli – remain an unfinished agenda.
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Azam's 'Hindu card'? Minister says Hinduism 'most tolerant religion'
National | Feb 10, 2017, 08:27 AM ISTUttar Pradesh minister Azam Khan, often in news for making controversial statements, on Thursday praised Hindu religion saying it was the most tolerant religion.
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Campaigning for first phase of UP polls ends, voting for 73 seats on February 11
National | Feb 09, 2017, 06:31 PM ISTCampaign in the first of seven phased Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 73 seats ended today with all parties mostly focusing on voter reachout on the ground.
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UP Polls: BSP has maximum candidates with criminal background in second phase, 256 crorepatis in fray
National | Feb 09, 2017, 06:17 PM ISTA total of 107 candidates who are in the fray for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections to be held on February 15 have declared criminal cases against themselves, an ADR report said.
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UP polls: Amid battle over seats, Congress’ Ameeta Sinh files nomination from Amethi
National | Feb 09, 2017, 03:37 PM ISTFormer UP minister Ameeta Sinh today filed her nomination as a Congress candidate from Amethi seat which has been given to the Samajwadi Party for the high-stake Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
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Campaigning for first phase of UP Assembly polls to end today
National | Feb 09, 2017, 12:29 PM ISTCampaigning for the first phase of Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh ends this evening. A total of 73 constituencies, in the western part of the state will go to polls in the first phase on Saturday (February 11).
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UP polls: Split in Muslim votes may work as advantage BJP
National | Feb 08, 2017, 03:10 PM ISTIt is more the merrier for the BJP as whenever the saffron party is challenged by a number of Muslim rivals, a split in votes on communal lines helps turn the tide for its candidates in Uttar Pradesh.