With Assembly elections and civic polls nearing in Maharashtra, State's Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to hold an executive committee meeting in Pune today.
Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak on Saturday thanked the people after counting trends for the civic polls put the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in a clear lead over rivals Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and the Congress in all 17 local bodies.
As the stage is set for the counting of votes for the urban local body polls and the by-election to two assembly constituencies in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday, security has been tightened on the counting centres across the state on Saturday.
Attacking the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) ahead of the municipal elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath on Monday said the UP civic body polls is an election to clean the garbage, filth and anarchy of SP and BSP.
Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh took a jibe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi calling him the "first engine" of BJP's double-engine government which belongs to Adani.
Shivpal on Sunday while campaigning in Bharatna of Etawah district claimed that all the BJP ministers and the Deputy CM who are campaigning in the state know that the public is not going to vote for them but they still come just to pressurize the officers.
The police arrested a total of 130 people with fake voter cards from Sambhal district, as the first phase of voting began for the Uttar Pradesh urban body elections on Thursday.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said that Basti, which was a city of great historical and mythological significance, was a victim of state neglect during opposition governments in the past.
In this regard, Rahul Gandhi took to Twitter and said, "Many congratulations to all our Babbar Sher workers, leaders and members of the state for the big victory of Congress in Shimla Municipal Corporation elections. The Himachal government fulfilled the promise given to the people, that is
"Under PM Modi's leadership we have witnessed the changing India. India's global prestige has gone up. Modiji is known as 'Sankat Mochan' (trouble-shooter). We have brought back our citizens safe from the crisis-ridden Sudan. A total of 431 people from UP have been brought back so far from t