Rita Bahuguna Joshi

A special court on Friday held BJP MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi and four others guilty of violation of the model code of conduct during the 2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh. The special court for cases involving MPs and MLAs later ordered their release on probation for a period of six months. Joshi was a Congress leader in 2012 and joined the BJP in 2016. The four other convicts are Prabha Srivastava, Ram Singh, Manoj Chaurasia and Sanjai Yadav. According to the prosecution, the FIR in the case was lodged at Krishna Nagar police station against Joshi, who was contesting the election on a Congress ticket, for addressing a public rally in Bajranj Nagar mohalla even after the time for campaigning had ended. The police investigated the case and submitted the charge sheet against the convicts on June 17, 2012. An accused, Shakil Ahmad, had died during pendency of trial. Joshi is currently the BJP MP from Allahabad. Special court judge A K Srivastava directed the convicts to file tw

Describing English as a colonial language, she said, "Our intention is not to impose Hindi, but to promote regional languages along with Hindi and constrain the use of English

The BJP MP's counsel S.D. Kautilya, said that the FIR was lodged by one Shiv Babu Gupta against Joshi and four others on January 16, 2008

Mayank Joshi, son of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi who joined Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday said that Uttar Pradesh's future will be safe in former CM Akhilesh Yadav's hands

BJP MP Rita Bahuguna on Sunday cast her vote in the fifth phase of the ongoing polls in Uttar Pradesh and asserted that her party would win more than 300 seats in the 403-seat Assembly in the state.

Yadav tweeted a photo of Mayank Joshi meeting him and described it as an 'informal meeting'

BJP parliamentarian Rita Bahuguna Joshi appeared before a special MP/MLA court on Saturday in connection with two cases, after it issued non-bailable warrants against her for missing court dates

She pointed out that SP's policy to give tickets to goons and mafias has dampened Akhilesh's efforts to reform the party's image

Congress said Rita's exit won't have any impact on upcoming UP assembly elections; grand old party's prospects

Joshi is said to be upset with her party projecting Sheila Dikshit as its CM face for the upcoming UP polls

She said the Congress has been sublet to 'PK' - a reference to election strategist Prashant Kishor

According to sources, Joshi is in the national capital, but she could not be approached for a comment

She is said to be upset that Congress projected Sheila Dikshit as its chief ministerial face for UP polls