Returning Officer and Special Secretary of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly Braj Bhushan Dubey said that all three candidates have submitted their nomination papers in two sets each
"In five years of your tenure you gave a failure state but we made a secure state. You looted millions and we will give the state one trillion," he said addressing Yadav in UP Legislative Assembly
Samajwadi Party leader Swami Prasad Maurya said that the Bharatiya Janata Party is doing drama and trying to project that there was no Ram Lalla before this govt
Slamming the Opposition parties, the BJP said that the Samajwadi Party and Congress have no existence in Uttar Pradesh
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said even the women, who are among the main supporters of the BJP, will not vote for it this time
SP leader Dimple Yadav, meanwhile, said there should not be any further delay in deciding candidates for the Lok Sabha polls, &stressed that the upcoming polls will be about "saving the Constitution"
Dimple Yadav, the wife of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav, will contest from Mainpuri
Reacting to the development, Samajwadi Party spokesperson Ameeq Jamei said, "The elections that are going to be held are for saving our secular democracy"
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said his party's alliance with the Congress is "off to a good start" with 11 "strong" Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh.
Talking about alliance in Uttar Pradesh, he said that a 'very good alliance is being made. The alliance is not of seats, but of victory'
Yadav has been invited to the ceremony by the Shri Ram Janmbhoomi Teerth Kshetra, but he said he would visit the temple later with his family as a devotee
"Congratulations to everyone on the alliance of RLD and SP. Let us all unite for victory," Yadav said in a post on X
The Congress had won only one seat in UP in the 2019 general elections. At present, the party is only confined to Rae Bareli seat, held by Congress veteran Sonia Gandhi
'We will surely visit with family as devotees after the Pran Pratishtha ceremony,' said Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav
Though Yadav has said that PDA also includes 'Agde' (upper caste), 'Adhi Abadi' (women) and 'Advasi' (tribals), the party's main focus is on backwards, Dalits and minorities
"Thank you for the invitation to the Pran Pratishtha ceremony of the Ram Temple and congratulations on its successful completion," read the letter written by the SP chief
"Earlier, the urea cost was Rs 266.50 for a 45-kg bag and the rate for 1 kg urea was Rs 5.92. Now, the urea price for a 40-kg bag costs Rs 266.50 and comes to Rs 6.66 per kg," Yadav said
The Mainpuri MP, in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to celebrate Diwali on January 22, said that the workers of the BJP should distribute ghee door-to-door and in all villages
Mayawati's comment comes a day after the Samajwadi Party (SP) chief took a jibe at the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) while speaking to reporters during an event in Ballia district
Yakub Qureshi is a two-time MLA and a former state minister. The seized properties include a hospital building at Meerut's Bhavani Nagar in Nauchandi and two luxury cars