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Amid tight security, Mukhtar Ansari laid to rest in UP's Ghazipur

Gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari was laid to rest at the Kali Bagh burial ground in Ghazipur on Saturday. The body was brought to the family's ancestral burial ground, about half a km from their residence, where a grave was dug on Friday. The local administration made elaborate security arrangements outside Ansari's residence and the burial ground. Ansari died due to a cardiac arrest on Thursday. His body was brought to his hometown around midnight on Friday, family sources said, adding the burial rituals took place at the residence. The body was taken to the Kali Bagh burial ground in a procession led by family members, including his son Umar Ansari and brother Afzal Ansari. A large crowd accompanied the procession and some also raised slogans. Police faced a tough time in managing the crowd who tried to force their way into the burial ground where entry was restricted. Security personnel, including that of the paramilitary, were deployed at strength around the Ansari ...

The elephant in the room: Will solo 2024 contest help or hurt BSP?

Out of power in UP since 2012, the BSP has been on a downslide, unable to leverage its purported Dalit vote bank to its advantage as in the past

Uttar Pradesh Urban Body Polls 2023: BJP way ahead, SP, BSP routed

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is leading in 16 corporations out of 17 in the Uttar Pradesh urban local body polls

RLD's win in UP's Khatauli by-poll worrisome for BJP, say political pundits

Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), an ally of the principal Opposition Samajwadi Party (SP), trounced the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Khatauli Assembly by-poll in Muzaffarnagar district

HC restrains UP govt from issuing notification for ULB polls till Dec 20

The Allahabad High Court on Wednesday extended till December 20 its order restraining the Uttar Pradesh State Election Commission from issuing a notification to conduct urban local body elections in the state. The Lucknow bench of the court was hearing a petition alleging that the reservation process for the OBC (Other Backward Classes) was not followed for the urban local bodies by the state government. On Wednesday, the state government sought three day's time to file a counter affidavit, which a bench headed by Justice D K Upadhyay accepted and extended its order restraining issuing of notification for urban local body elections till December 20. The bench on Monday restrained the poll authorities from issuing the notification till Tuesday, based on the PIL moved by Vaibhav Pandey and other petitioners. The petitioners have challenged the December 5 notification whereby the state sought objections to fixing of quota, if any, till Monday evening. The petitioners have alleged tha

Samajwadi Party begins collecting proof of voter deletion in UP polls

The ECI has asked SP president Akhilesh Yadav to "submit documentary proof" to substantiate his allegation about the deletion of voter names in 2022 UP Assembly polls

Adityanath 2.0 to navigate farm, infra projects before 2024 polls

New expressways to put UP on fast track of progress

RLD dismisses its ex UP unit chief's allegations of sale of party tickets

Dismissing Masood Ahmed's claims that 'seats were sold' in the state Assembly elections, RLDTrilok Tyagi said that Ahmed has made the allegations to fulfill his political ambitions.

Yogi Adityanath meets Vice President; likely to meet PM Modi next in Delhi

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath met Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu and BJP, in his first visit to national capital after party notched up a comprehensive victory in the assembly polls.

UP polls: Keshav Prasad Mauraya and other BJP bigwigs who lost

The Bharatiya Janata Party retained power in the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, but saw a drop in number of seats compared to the previous elections, as well as several top leaders bite the dust.

Uttar Pradesh Elections: BJP trio wins Noida, Dadri, Jewar seats again

BJP MLAs from Noida, Dadri and Jewar in Gautam Buddh Nagar district Thursday emerged victorious from their respective seats in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections 2022, according to official results. Pankaj Singh won the Noida seat with a whopping margin of 1.81 lakh votes, while Tejpal Nagar recorded a victory with 1.38 lakh votes, the Election Commission website showed. Dhirendra Singh won from the Jewar assembly seat with a victory margin of 56,315 votes, according to the result on the EC website. All three assembly constituencies had gone to polls on February 10 during the first round of the seven-phase elections in the state.

Assembly polls: Counting of votes in five states on Thursday

Political parties were bracing for assembly election results in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur, sending out feelers for possible post-poll tie-ups.

EC sends special officers for counting of votes in Varanasi, Meerut

Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) of Delhi has been sent as a special officer to oversee the counting process in Meerut and Bihar's CEO to Varanasi

BJP to repeat its 2017 show in Uttar Pradesh: Deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

Sharma said that in the last five years, the size of the economy of Uttar Pradesh increased and the government gave government jobs to 4.5 lakh youths

UP Polls: Surveys don't matter, we'll get over 300 seats, says Akhilesh

He claimed that the SP-led alliance will form the next government in Uttar Pradesh with over 300 seats.

Voting begins for last phase of UP Assembly polls; 613 candidates in fray

Voting for the seventh and the last phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections began on Monday morning, with 613 candidates in the fray on 54 seats

BJP-led alliance to get 80% seats in Assembly polls: Yogi Adityanath

Attacking the Opposition, he said people have come to know that their sensitivity is only for professional mafia, criminals and terrorists

UP polls: Curtain comes down on over-two month long election campaign

The campaigning in the last phase reached its crescendo with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the BJP's poll blitzkrieg in Varanasi and its adjoining districts

Will not leave UP regardless of poll results, says Priyanka Gandhi

The Congress leader made the remarks while addressing an election rally here in Ghazipur which goes to the polls on March 7 in the last phase of the seven-phase UP assembly elections