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UP on track to become $1 trn economy, speed needs to double: CM Yogi

He said that when assessing the state's economic growth rate against national standards, efforts have yielded commendable results

UP govt steps up land acquisition for Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor

AKIC is aimed at ushering in expansion of infrastructure and industry in the seven states falling along its route for catalysing industrial growth and job creation

At ten, UP has the most ministers in Modi govt. Check state-wise full list

PM Modi's third term: Union Council of Ministers is 72-strong, consisting 30 Cabinet ministers, five Ministers of State (independent charge) and 36 Ministers of State. They will be assigned portfolio

Akhilesh Yadav to be Samajwadi Party's leader in LS, will resign as UP LoP

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will be the party's leader in the Lok Sabha, the formalities for which will be completed in Delhi. Yadav will resign from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly, where he is the Leader of Opposition, a senior party leader said on Saturday. Rajendra Chaudhary, the Samajwadi Party's chief spokesperson, told PTI, "It is understood that Yadav will be the leader of the party in the Lok Sabha but there is a formality of choosing the leader of the parliamentary party and this will be completed in Delhi." "The formality of electing the leader of the parliamentary party will be completed after the swearing-in of the prime minister and the selection of the Lok Sabha's protem speaker," he added. Chaudhary also confirmed that Yadav will resign from the assembly, where he represents the Karhal seat in Mainpuri. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister has been elected to the Lok Sabha from the Kannauj constituency. As a constituent of the opposition INDIA bloc, the ...

WATCH: Amethi star Kishori Lal's daughter reacts to 'Gandhi's clerk' remark

Lok Sabha elections 2024: BJP's Raebareli candidate Dinesh Pratap Singh had called Kishori Lal Sharma a "peon" and "Priyanka Gandhi's "clerk" after the party gave him a ticket from Amethi

CM Adityanath seeks quick action on public issues, warns against negligence

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to complete all works related to the public within the stipulated time frame, warning that negligence will not be tolerated. Adityanath issued this directive during 'Janata Darshan', a public grievance meeting, at his official residence in Kalidas Marg here, according to a statement. He interacted with each attendee to understand their grievances and instructed the officials concerned to resolve them immediately, the statement said. "The chief minister instructed the officials that the works related to the common people should be done within the stipulated time frame. Ignoring any work will not be tolerated at all," the release quoted him as saying. Issues related to the public are the priority of the government, Adityanath added. A large number of youths also attended the Janta Darshan, where the chief minister not only addressed their personal problems but also engaged with them on various issues, the ..

UP people established the ideal that real issues are paramount: Priyanka

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday hailed the people of Uttar Pradesh, saying they gave a solid message to the whole country of saving the Constitution and re-established the old ideal that public issues are paramount. The BJP-led NDA suffered a jolt in Uttar Pradesh, where it won just 36 seats as against the INDIA bloc which bagged 43 -- a significant contribution to the overall tally of the opposition alliance. In a post in Hindi on X, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, "My salute to all my colleagues of UP Congress. I saw you working hard in the sun and dust, you did not bow down, you did not stop, you showed courage to fight in the toughest of times." "Atrocities were committed against you, fake cases were filed against you, you were put in jail, you were repeatedly put under house arrest but you did not get scared. Many leaders left in fear, you stood firm," she said. Gandhi further said she was proud of the vigilant people of Uttar Pradesh,

Election results 2024: Muslims failed to understand BSP, says Mayawati

After scoring a zilch in the Lok Sabha polls, Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Wednesday said that despite the party gave it a "proper representation" in elections, the Muslim community is not able to understand the BSP. Going forward, the party will give the community an electoral opportunity only after a lot of thought, she said. The BSP had failed to open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections as well. It, however, bagged 10 seats in the 2019 one, which it had fought in alliance with the Samajwadi Party. Mayawati in a statement said that her party will do a "deep analysis" of the trouncing and will take whatever steps that are necessary in the interest of the party. She expressed her gratitude to the Dalit community, especially the Jatavs, for supporting the party, but also expressed her displeasure towards the Muslims. "The Muslim community, which is an important part of the Bahujan Samaj Party, is not able to understand the BSP properly despite being given prope

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Which candidates won by the lowest margins?

Lok Sabha elections 2024 results: The BJP-led NDA is returning to power for a third term at the Centre as it surpassed the majority mark of 272 and won 292 seats

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Constituency-wise winners list for Uttar Pradesh

Lok Sabha polls 2024 result: The Congress won six seats while the Samajwadi Party won 37 seats by itself, marking a phenomenal return for the both the INDIA bloc parties

Lok Sabha polls: Ex-CMs Channi, Akhilesh win; Baghel, Digvijay face defeat

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: Manohar Lal Khattar, Charanjit Singh Channi, Akhilesh Yadav, Basavaraj Bommai are some of the former chief ministers contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha elections 2024

Lok Sabha polls result: Brij Bhushan Singh's son Karan wins UP's Kaiserganj

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: Brij Bhushan, who represented Uttar Pradesh's Kaiserganj Lok Sabha constituency previously, was denied re-nomination by the BJP in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls

Which states are opting for NDA, and which ones are choosing INDIA bloc?

Lok Sabha election results 2024: Trends indicate the BJP-led NDA forming its third consecutive government, while the INDIA bloc trails closely, prompting the BJP to reconsider its future poll strategy

Strong economic base to help new govt make India a developed nation by 2047

India's world record beating economic growth rate together with robust tax revenues, a fast expanding digital and financial infrastructure and a strong manufacturing sector will give the new government a base for unleashing next generation reforms that may make the country a developed nation by 2047. The new government will however have to tackle with problems like unemployment and rural distress, which seemed to have played a major role in voting pattern in states like Uttar Pradesh, while also keeping inflation under control. Given that no party, including BJP, have a clear majority of its own, tough reforms like big ticket privatisation and labour law reforms may take a backseat. As per the available trends, BJP is likely to win about 240 seats in a 543- member Lok Sabha. It would have to rely on its allies like TDP and JDU to form the next government. The new government will have to build upon the 8.2 per cent GDP growth recorded in 2023-24 and carry on with the reforms to make

BJP's candidate Atul Garg leads in Ghaziabad by over 2,60,000 votes

Atul Garg, who replaced former Union minister V K Singh as BJP's Ghaziabad Lok Sabha candidate, is leading by a margin of over 2.66 lakh votes, according to poll trends on the Election Commission's website on Tuesday. Until 4 pm, Garg has polled over 6.80 lakh votes as compared to Congress' Dolly Sharma who has bagged 4.13 lakh votes and Bahujan Samaj Party's Nand Kishor Pundir who got 66,226 votes. Besides them, a total of 11 other candidates are in the fray from the western Uttar Pradesh constituency but none could garner even 2,000 votes till 4 pm. The NOTA (none of the above) option bagged the fourth highest number of votes -- 6,644 even as the counting continued. Singh, a former Army chief, had won from Ghaziabad by a margin of over 5 lakh votes in both the Lok Sabha polls of 2014 and 2019. Garg, a sitting MLA in Uttar Pradesh from the Ghaziabad seat, was declared BJP's Lok Sabha candidate on March 24, within hours of Singh's announcement that he would not contest the ...

Lok Sabha elections 2024 result: How is Akhilesh Yadav faring in Kannauj?

Lok Sabha elections 2024: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is leading the Kannauj seat by a vote margin of 117,946

Lok Sabha elections results: Akhilesh Yadav, wife Dimple lead in UP

Akhilesh Yadav and his wife Dimple Yadav are leading by a comfortable margin in Uttar Pradesh. The party had fielded five members of the Yadav clan in the Lok Sabha elections. While Akhilesh Yadav is leading by a margin of 61,351 votes from BJP's Subrat Pathak in Kannauj, Dimple Yadav is leading in Mainpuri by a margin of 68,261 votes against her closest rival, BJP's Jaiveer Singh, according to the EC. In Azamgarh, SP's Dharmendra Yadav is leading by a margin of 45,069 votes against BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav Nirahua, while in Firozabad party leader Ram Gopal Yadav's son Akshay Yadav is leading by a margin of 56,986 votes against BJP's Vishwadeep Singh. In Badaun, SP leader Shivpal Yadav's son Aditya Yadav is trailing behind BJP's Durvijay Singh Shakya by 16,751 votes. The party had initially given a ticket to Shivpal on this seat but later gave it to his son Aditya.

Lok Sabha polls: The biggest winners of 2019 and their current status

BJP candidate from Gujarat's Navsari seat, CR Patil registered the highest victory margin in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, where he defeated his nearest Congress rival DB Patil by a record 6,89,000 votes

Lok Sabha 2024: As INDIA closes in on NDA in UP, a repeat of 2004 on cards?

While PM Narendra Modi was leading in Varanasi by a margin of 13,000 votes, Smriti Irani in Amethi and Dinesh Pratap Singh were trailing behind Congress' Kishori Lal Sharma and Rahul Gandhi

PM Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Rajnath Singh, Akhilesh in lead: Initial trends

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav were leading from the Varanasi, Lucknow, Rae Barelli and the Kannauj Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, respectively, according to news channels. Out of the 80 seats in the state, the BJP was leading in 51 while the INDIA bloc was ahead in 23, according to trends for 74 seats. According to the trends at 8:40 am from postal ballot counting, Modi was ahead of his nearest rival Congress's Ajay Rai from Varanasi, while Singh was ahead of SP's Ravidas Mehrotra. Gandhi was ahead of BJP's Dinesh Pratap Singh in Rae Bareli and Yadav ahead of BJP's Subrat Pathak in Kannuaj.