Strict on illegal construction in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's government is now going to run bulldozers on encroachments on all government lands including parks, ponds and puddles in urban bodies.
Various leaders from various political parties joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttar Pradesh's Lucknow on Sunday in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Brajesh Pathak ahead of the state civic polls slated to be held on May 4 and 11.
An MP MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur on Saturday convicted Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Afzal Ansari in a kidnapping and murder case pertaining to the killing of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Krishnanand Rai and sentenced him to four years imprisonment.
An MP MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur on Saturday convicted jailed mafia Mukhtar Ansari in a kidnapping and murder case pertaining to the killing of BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai and sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment.
The wife of late BJP MLA Krishnanand Rai who was murdered in Ghazipur in 2005 allegedly by gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari and his brother Afzal Ansari on Saturday said that the rule of mafia has ended in Uttar Pradesh and that she has faith in the judiciary.
Security was heightened ahead of the verdict by an MP-MLA court in Uttar Pradesh's Ghazipur in a kidnapping and murder case against gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, his elder brother and BSP MP Afzal Ansari on Saturday.
Former union minister and BJP leader Radha Mohan Singh took a jibe at Aam Aadmi Party's plan to contest upcoming municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh said AAP is contesting elections for entertainment purposes only.
Without taking any names, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attacked the previous government, saying that while prior to 2017, those associated with a particular party brandished "tamanchas", today's youth in Uttar Pradesh work on tablets, said a press release on Tuesday.
Ahead of the municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the "problems in cities" and said that the party did not make them "smart" in spite of having its own mayors and "opened drain" instead.
In a fresh crackdown against the cadres of the banned Popular Front of India (PFI), the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Tuesday carried out searches at 16 locations in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab and Goa.
Launching the BJP's campaign for the upcoming municipal elections in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday came down hard on the erstwhile "mafia raj" in the state.