In west UP’s 8 seats, BJP faced youth, Rajput anger
Actress Hema Malini, actor Arun Govil and BSP-turned Congress-leader Danish Ali are among those whose fates are to be decided in polling in Uttar Pradesh in the second phase on Friday.
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Lok Sabha Elections: Targeting PM Modi, BJP would lead to retaliation, says Mayawati's nephew Akash Anand
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national coordinator Akash Anand has said attacking , Union Home Minister Amit Shah and the (BJP) government at the centre could lead to retaliation. The community, Anand said, that the BSP represents is not capable to fight agencies like Enforcement Directorate (ED) and Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
On Arun ‘Ram’ Govil’s lips, ‘Ramji’, but also Modi and Yogi: ‘They must have a plan’
The BJP may be banking big on the consecration of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya under the Modi government for the coming Lok Sabha elections, raising it at poll meetings. But Arun Govil, the ‘Ram’ in the race, appears to believe that God alone won’t see him through in Meerut; he is also counting on Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath.
Decode Politics: Why Mayawati’s west UP statehood promise has ruffled feathers
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati’s remark at an election rally on April 14 about carving out west Uttar Pradesh as a separate state has shifted the focus on the demand for the reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh even as most of the other parties remain uneasy and non-committal on the issue.
Usual poll humdrum absent, why Opposition may have missed the boat in western UP
“Yeh ekdam thanda chunaav hai (This is not an exciting election).” More than one person had this to say in west UP, where polling for the Lok Sabha elections in eight constituencies will be held on April 19.
In ‘tiger country’ Pilibhit, a poll battle shapes up sans Gandhis after decades
Located just off the Shivaliks, Pilibhit is a predominantly agricultural constituency where tractors dominate the roads more than any other vehicle, with wheat, rice and sugarcane grown in turns. With large swathes of forests that encompass the Pilibhit Tiger Reserve, one notices machans (raised platforms made of jute and bamboo) in every field, indicative of the dangers farmers face daily, not just from the menace of stray cattle but also tigers that follow them out of their jungle lair.
In West UP, ‘crackdown’ on Oppn a concern, but no reason not to vote BJP
Among many voters across several Western Uttar Pradesh constituencies bound for the Lok Sabha polls in the first phase on April 19, there seems to be some resonance for the Opposition parties in the wake of recent actions of the Central agencies, ranging from thearrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and ex-Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren to the Income Tax department’s freezing of the Congress party’s bank accounts, among other cases. But, while they question the timing of these actions, they don’t find it a strong enough reason to vote against the ruling BJP in the polls.
As Gandhis stall on Amethi, Raebareli, voters warn: ‘Those times are gone when you could win like this’
It is a Sunday afternoon. Sitting with two colleagues and scrolling through his social media feed, Amethi district Congress president Pradeep Singhal says he is confident Rahul Gandhi will again contest from the seat. And, five years after he lost the family seat to the BJP’s Smriti Irani, Singhal says: “He will win.”