Union Home Minister Amit Shah (file photo)UP Assembly Election 2022 Updates: Attending BJP’s ‘Jan Vishwas Yatra’ rally in Kasganj on Sunday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said, “Earlier people were afraid of sending their daughters to schools and colleges. Within 4.5 years, under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath, all the goons fled from UP.”
Speaking at Orai in Jalaun, Shah said, “Today, I want to say that we’re going win more than 300 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022. Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are casteist parties. Modiji and Yogiji stand for ‘Sabka saath, Sabka vikas’.” He added, “Under the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh, there were 3 Ps- ‘Parivarwaad, Pakshpaath and Palayan’. BJP today has established law and order in the state.”
Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday targeted the Samajwadi Party, alleging that its government wasted the money meant for the poor on “kabristans”, hired incompetent Urdu translator but did nothing for students and teachers of Sanskrit schools. “During the previous government, the money meant for the poor was wasted on subjects like ‘kabristan’ (graveyard). Those who did not even know Urdu language were appointed as Urdu translators but nothing was done for students and teachers of Sanskrit schools,” he said.
Adityanath went on to say that the opposition alliance was not accepted by people of the state in 2017, and it will not be again in the coming election.
The remark was aimed at the series of alliances the Samajwadi Party (SP) has forged in the run-up to the assembly election due next year in the state. Addressing the ‘Jan Vishwas Yatra’ here at Kalka Garhi Chowk on Ambedkar Road, Adityanath attacked the SP saying while it opposes ‘kanwar yatra’, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supports it.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath arrives to attend the Winter Session of Uttar Pradesh Assembly session in Lucknow, Wednesday, Dec. 15. 2021. (PTI Photo/Nand Kumar)
The people of Uttar Pradesh do something new in every election and after voting on caste and religion basis in the past, they are ready to vote based on issues concerning them this time, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel said.
Baghel, who is the senior poll observer for the Congress in Uttar Pradesh, in an interview to PTI said the party will contest on all the seats in the state in the upcoming assembly elections, giving 40 per cent seats to women this time.
The Congress will fight the polls under the leadership of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has fearlessly and aggressively raised people's issues in the state, be it farmers' problems, unemployment, price rise or dwindling incomes, or atrocities against Dalits, women and youth, he said.
This will benefit the Congress, the senior leader asserted. (PTI)
BJP leader Radha Mohan Singh on Sunday said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Aditynath restored the cultural heritage of the state despite challenges he inherited. The party national vice-president and UP in-charge alleged Adityanath inherited a state riven with corruption and mafia rule due to misrule by the previous governments.
"For a long time, corruption, mafia rule, terror and appeasement had gripped Uttar Pradesh. The earlier governments had never paid attention to the state's development, but indulged in politics of appeasement for the development of their votebanks," Singh said addressing a 'Kisan Sammelan' here in Phephana village. (PTI)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday claimed that the businessman whose premises was raided by central agencies recently is linked to the SP, a charge denied the Opposition party earlier.
Unaccounted Rs 150 crore in cash was unearthed in a series of raids by various taxation agencies on the premises of Kanpur-based perfume industrialist Piyush Jain, sources had said on Friday. The BJP had claimed that he had links with the Samajwadi Party, which was denied by the Opposition party.
Addressing a public meeting here, the chief minister said around Rs 100 crore more recovered from the trader today. "For the past two-three days, continuous raids are being conducted on the premises of a person belonging to the SP. Rupees 257 crore in cash and several kilograms of gold and silver was recovered," he said. (PTI)
Two Hindu right-wing outfits tried to burn an effigy of Bollywood actress Sunny Leone here accusing her of “indecent dance” and hurting their religious sentiments in a music video, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday when the activists belonging to the two bodies tried to burn the actor's effigy objecting over song ‘Madhuban’. The song shares a few words of its lyrics with the iconic 'Madhuban mein Radhika naache re' song from 1960 film ‘Kohinoor'.
The activists belonging to ‘Srikrishna Sena Sangathan' and ‘Yuva Brahmin Mahasabha' were stopped in the act with assurance of an FIR in the matter, a police officer said. No FIR was lodged in the matter till late Sunday evening. (PTI)
CM Yogi Adityanath performs 'Bhoomi Puja' and lays the foundation stone of the houses under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (Urban) in Prayagraj
“Before 2017, the land of poor people was occupied but today in Prayagraj we have started two schemes of housing for poor people on the land confiscated from gangsters…Even today Rs 100 crores and several kg of gold and silver were recovered. This money belongs to the poor, which they looted under the protection of the government,” says UP CM Yogi Aditynath in Prayagraj.
He adds, “A person associated with SP used to talk about 'Samajwadi perfume', on which our state BJP president said that this is not a perfume but 'Samajwadi stink'. Yesterday, Rs 257 crores and many kgs of gold, silver recovered from their walls.” (ANI)
“BJP's double-engine governments are working with full commitment. While those who are out of power for 5 years, even today crores of currency notes are coming out of their walls. This money is of corruption,” says UP CM Yogi Adityanath in Kaushambi. (ANI)
“Samajwadi Party is dreaming that it will come to power again in Uttar Pradesh and they will stop the ongoing works at Ram Janmabhoomi. Akhileshji, no one can stop the construction of Ram Temple in Ayodhya,” says Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Orai, Jalaun. (ANI)
Amit Shah, “Under the Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh, there were 3 Ps- ‘Parivarwaad, Pakshpaath and Palayan’. BJP today has established law and order in the state.” (ANI)
“Today, I want to say that we're going win more than 300 seats in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2022. Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party are casteist parties. Modiji and Yogiji stand for 'Sabka saath, Sabka vikas',” says Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Orai in Jalaun. (ANI)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah attended BJP's 'Jan Vishwas Yatra' rally in Kasganj on Sunday. "Earlier people were afraid of sending their daughters to schools and colleges. Within 4.5 years, under the leadership of Yogi Adityanath, all the goons fled from UP," he said.
Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh laid the foundation stone of the BrahMos Missiles production unit and DRDO lab in Lucknow on Sunday.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Friday announced that the candidates protesting against the discrepancies in the recruitment process for the reserved category in the appointment of 69,000 assistant teachers will be recruited.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday met a delegation of protesting students in Lucknow and had directed basic education department officials to find a “swift and fair” solution. Read more.
Rejecting AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi’s allegation that a police officer harassed one Mohammed Rafiq, the Kanpur Dehat police on Friday said he was arrested for allegedly assaulting two police officers and robbing one of them of his service pistol.
In a video of a purported speech made by Owaisi in Kanpur on December 12, he said, “At Kanpur Dehat Rasoolabad Police Station, an 80-year-old elderly person called Mohd Rafiq had his beard pulled and was urinated upon. The person who did this was an SI, Gajendra Pal Singh. Is this your izzat (decency)? You treat an 80-year-old like this? If this is true, it’s not a shame but we feel pained… I want to tell those policemen that remember my words, Yogi will not be CM forever, Modi will not be PM forever… We Muslims might be silent now due to the exigencies of the times, but remember that we are never going to forget your atrocities…” Read more.
Ayodhya would soon be connected with waterways, and no efforts would be spared to project the temple town as a “world-class destination”, said Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday.
“No efforts will be spared to present Ayodhya as a world-class destination with modern amenities and the global connectivity,” said Adityanath, who was in Ayodhya to lay the foundation stone of a government ayurvedic college, 500 health wellness centers and 50-bed Ayush hospitals in six districts.
Attacking the previous Samajwadi Party (SP) government in UP, Adityanath said “There was a pressing need for the government of Ram devotees to bring in a Ram Rajya in its true sense… People don’t want a government that fires bullets at Ram Bhakts.” Read more.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday targeted the Samajwadi Party, alleging that its government wasted the money meant for the poor on "kabristans", hired incompetent Urdu translator but did nothing for students and teachers of Sanskrit schools.
Referring to income tax raids on premises of some Samajwadi Party (SP) leaders, he accused the party's previous government of "looting" people.
"During the previous government, the money meant for the poor was wasted on subjects like 'kabristan' (graveyard). Those who did not even know Urdu language were appointed as Urdu translators but nothing was done for students and teachers of Sanskrit schools," he said.
"The Bharatiya Janata Party government took care of Sanskrit schools," claimed Adityanath during his visit to Bateshwar, ancestral village of former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
On income tax raids, Adityanath said the previous government "looted" people. (PTI)
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said the opposition alliance was not accepted by people of the state in 2017, and it will not be again in the coming election.
The remark was aimed at the series of alliances the Samajwadi Party (SP) has forged in the run up to the assembly election due next year in the state. Addressing the 'Jan Vishwas Yatra' here at Kalka Garhi Chowk on Ambedkar Road, Adityanath attacked the SP saying while it opposes ‘kanwar yatra', the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supports it.
He said the BJP will win 325 seats in the election, adding that under his rule no section of society was left behind and all benefitted from the government's developmental work.
The CM said land grabbed by the land mafia was freed under his government and the “education mafia” was also cracked down upon. In Muradnagar town, the roadshow was attended by Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh shrama. BJP MP from Baghpat Satyapal Singh and other leaders also were seen taking part in the yatra. (PTI)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday began the campaign to distribute free tablets and smartphones to one crore students of the state on the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee here.
Since 2014, December 25 has been celebrated as 'Good Governance Day' in memory of Vajpayee, who served as the country's PM thrice, including a full term in 1999-2004.
Tablets and smartphones were distributed to 60,000 students at the Ekana Stadium.
Five students -- Akanksha Mishra, a final year student of BSc Nursing, Sagar Upamanyu, a visually-challenged student of MA (Political Science), Mehul Gupta, a BTech student, Prabal Awasthi preparing for competitive examinations and Zeba Kausar, a final year student of BA - were invited on stage to speak where they expressed gratitude to the CM for providing resources to the needy students. (PTI)
“UP CM Yogi Adityanath has started the free tablet & smartphone scheme today. Now every day lakhs of gadgets will be distributed. Sufficient funds have been provided & orders have been issued,” says UP ACS Home Awanish Awasthi, on distribution of phones/tablets to students. (ANI)
Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar will soon have five more ethanol distilleries, with district authorities issuing licenses to four such units and sanctions pending for another. With this, Muzaffarnagar will have eight ethanol distilleries.
The district already has three ethanol distilleries that produced 6.73 crores litres of ethanol in 2020-21. They have a capacity to produce 10.97 crore litres of ethanol in a year, according to officials.
District Excise Officer Uday Prakash Singh said his department has issued licenses to four new ethanol distilleries. The license for another such unit is awaiting sanction. (PTI)
“I'm grateful to receive such respect. We never got such recognition earlier, so it's a proud moment for us,” says Olympic silver medalist Mirabai Chanu on receiving a reward of Rs 1.5 crore by UP govt, at Bharat Ratna Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. (ANI)
In view of Covid-19, restrictions under Section 144 of CrPC to continue till January 31, says Ashutosh Dwivedi, the Additional SP of Gautam Buddh Nagar
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan garlanded the statue of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and paid him floral tributes on his birth anniversary at the Lok Bhawan here on Saturday.
Hailing the former prime minister, Adityanath said Vajpayee commanded respect and reverence from all leaders cutting across party lines. "His long public life, spanning six decades, was unblemished," the chief minister said.
According to the state BJP unit, the party is celebrating Vajpayee's birth anniversary as 'Good Governance Day'. Workers and office bearers are taking part in various programmes at the booth level to pay him tributes by holding a discussion on his personality and work.
'Atal Yuva Sankalp Yatras' are being taken out in all 403 Assembly constituencies of the state, the organisers said.
On Friday evening, several programmes were held in Lucknow, the constituency Vajpayee represented in the Lok Sabha. (PTI)
Multi-disciplinary central teams have been deployed in 10 states which are reporting either an increasing number of Omicron and Covid-19 cases or a slow vaccination pace, according to a Union Health Ministry office memorandum.
As per the document, these 10 states are Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Mizoram, Karnataka, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, and Punjab.
These teams will be stationed in the states for three to five days, and they will work along with the state health authorities, it said.
The teams will specifically look into areas of contact-tracing, including surveillance and containment operations, and Covid-19 testing, including sending of adequate samples from clusters to the INSACOG network for genome sequencing, the memo stated.
They will also look into enforcement of Covid-appropriate behaviour, availability of hospital beds, sufficient logistics, including ambulances, ventilators, and medical oxygen, and the Covid-19 vaccination progress. (PTI)
The district community process manager (DCPM) of Ballia has been sacked by the director of the National Health Mission on charges of indiscipline and corruption, officials said on Saturday.
Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Tanmay Kakkar confirmed the dismissal. National Health Mission Director Aparna Upadhyay has terminated DCPM Pushpendra Singh Shakya from service, they said. Serious complaints were received against the DCPM, and a three-member committee was constituted to investigate the matter, the officials said.
Upon scrutiny of documents, the inquiry committee found the complaints against Shakya of drawing more money than the proposed honorarium, extortion and indiscipline correct, following which was terminated from service, they claimed. (PTI)
Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar will soon have five more ethanol distilleries, with district authorities issuing licenses to four such units and sanctions pending for another.
With this, Muzaffarnagar will have eight ethanol distilleries. The district already has three ethanol distilleries that produced 6.73 crores litres of ethanol in 2020-21. They have a capacity to produce 10.97 crore litres of ethanol in a year, according to officials. District Excise Officer Uday Prakash Singh said his department has issued licenses to four new ethanol distilleries.
The license for another such unit is awaiting sanction. Five industrialists had applied for licenses. They will invest Rs 500 crore and help generate employment opportunities and revenue, he said. (PTI)
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday paid tributes to former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee here on the eve of his birth anniversary.
Speaking on the occasion, Adityanath paid tributes to the former PM, and said, 'Atalji rose above party lines, and was respected by people from the ruling party and the opposition. His journey of six decades in public life has been without any stain. Politics without principles can have no place in the social life. He never compromised with the values and ideals.'
The Chief Minister also said the traditions of Vajpayee have been emulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is continuously working as a true 'karmayogi' in the interest of the country and for the welfare of its citizens.
Mounting an attack on the SP, the BSP and the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said these parties never showed respect to Maharaja Suheldev, who had defeated invader Salar Masood.
Addressing the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) "Jan Vishwas Yatra" in Bahraich, he said, "Having an institution named after Maharaja Suheldev was a dream and it was (Prime Minister Narendra) Modiji who made it a reality. The foundation stone of a medical college named after Maharaja Suheldev has been laid."
Attacking the Samajwadi Party (SP), Adityanath asked the gathering if it had ever shown respect to Maharaja Suheldev. "Will the followers of Maharaja Suheldev shake hands with the followers of Salar Masood? The followers of Maharaja Suheldev will never bow down before anyone," he said. (PTI)
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has begun worrying about cows and other livestock (govardhan and pashudhan) ahead of the assembly elections while UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath kept silent on their plight in cowsheds in the state, state Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lalu alleged on Friday.
Lalu made the allegation a day after Prime Minister Modi observed in Varanasi that talking about cows today has been made a "sin" by some people but "it is the mother and sacred for us". Reacting to PM's observation, Lalu said, "In the past four-and-half years, the Adityanath government and the Modi government have done nothing to stop the atrocities committed on cows in 'gaushalas' (cowsheds), nor did they take the name of the cow.” “Now, as the assembly elections are nearing in Uttar Pradesh, the Modi government has begun thinking of 'govardhan' (cows) and 'pashudhan' (livestock),” he said.
"Modi ji is telling people that the cows are revered. Who does not know it? Modi ji should tell us what the UP government has done to improve the plight of cows in cowsheds,” he said. The UP Congress chief also said the party general secretary has raised the issue of the poor condition of cows but the Adityanath government did not heed to it. (PTI)
Agra Police has written to the Uttar Pradesh government seeking permission for prosecution sanction against the three Kashmiri students who were arrested for sedition and other charges after the Pakistan cricket team’s victory over India at the T20 World Cup match in October.
The accused, meanwhile, have sought a transfer of their case from Agra to Mathura. Read More
A day after searches were conducted by tax officials at the house of businessman Piyush Jain in Kanpur, the ruling BJP and the Samajwadi Party (SP) traded allegations and counter-allegations, with each of them seeking to link the other with Jain.
Hailing from the SP bastion Kannauj, Jain has business interests in perfumes and paan masala. His house in Kanpur and his properties in other cities were reportedly searched by the GST and I-T officials in an operation that started Thursday evening. Some purported photographs showing huge amounts of cash being counted have gone viral on social media, which are being linked to searches by the tax officials. Read More
Leaders of Congress, BSP, SP and RLD including former home minister Rajendra Tripathi joined the BJP on Friday. According to BJP state co-media in-charge Himanshu Dubey, former home minister and three-time Prayagraj MLA Rajendra Tripathi joined the BJP quitting Congress at a programme held at the latter's headquarters here.
Former BSP MLA Krishnapal Singh Rajput (Jhansi), RLD's Muni Dev Sharma (Bijnor), BSP's Veer Singh Prajapati (Bulandshahr), and founder member of SP Kunwar Balbir Singh Chauhan, were among those who joined the party on Friday, Dubey said. Retired IPS officer Gurbachan Lal was also inducted into the BJP, he said.
While joining, the leaders expressed faith in the “nationalist” policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, he added. (PTI)
Extra vigil will be maintained in the bordering areas with Nepal in view of the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh early next year and the administrative officials of the neighbouring country have assured full cooperation in this regard, a senior district official said here on Friday.
A meeting of the India-Nepal Coordination Committee was held in Nepalganj city of neighbouring country during which the issue of peaceful conduct of UP elections was taken up on which the senior administrative officers present from the Nepalese side assured all possible cooperation, Bahraich District Magistrate Dinesh Chandra Singh told newspersons here. (PTI)
Uttar Pradesh on Friday imposed a night curfew in the state from 11 pm to 5 am as precautionary measure amid rising Omicron cases. The curfew will come into affect from Saturday night. This is the second state to bring back the night curfew after Madhya Pradesh’s announcement yesterday.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati on Thursday accused rivals BJPand the Samajwadi Party (SP) of painting a communal colour to the upcoming Assembly elections in UP, and stressed the need to warn people against such designs.
“The rival parties, including the BJP, Samajwadi Party and others, are busy painting a Hindu-Muslim colour to the elections to hide their shortcomings. The BSP people will have to go to every village and every house to warn the people. This task must begin now,” Mayawati, who has convened a meeting of in-charges of all the 18 divisions and all 75 district presidents to review poll preparations, told mediapersons here. Read more.
As part of its poll campaign Ladki Hoon, Lad Sakti Hoon focusing on women in UP, the Congress on Thursday announced marathons for women in Lucknow and Jhansi on December 26.
“The first three winners in both the marathons will be awarded a scooty, and those coming fourth to 25th will get a smartphone each. The next 100 will get fitness bands, while the next 1,000 women will get medals,” said Mamata Choudhary, the president of UP Congress’s women wing. While the minimum age for participation has been fixed at 16 years, the party said that there will be no entry fees for the participants. “The registration process will be done online as well by submitting the form,” said Choudhary. Read more.
BJP party workers brought an elephant for an election campaign in Azamgarh ahead of the UP Assembly polls. Check it out:
A day after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered an inquiry into the land transactions in Ayodhya, senior Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Thursday argued that the probe ordered by the state government is inadequate and said the Supreme Court should investigate the matter.
The probe was ordered by the Uttar Pradesh government on a day The Indian Express published an investigative report that elected public representatives and relatives of state government officials bought land parcels in Ayodhya after the November 9, 2019 Supreme Court verdict clearing construction of a Ram temple in the district.
Addressing a press conference with Congress communication department head Randeep Surjewala at the AICC headquarters, Priyanka said, “The Uttar Pradesh government yesterday (Wednesday) said that they are ordering a probe. Who is conducting the probe? A district-level officer.” Read More
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday demanded that the Bharat Ratna be conferred on former prime minister Chaudhary Charan Singh.
On the Kisan Diwas today, we demand that the Bharat Ratna be conferred on the former prime minister, who devoted all his life for farmers and the country, Akhilesh said in a tweet in Hindi on the leader's 119th birth anniversary.
The birth anniversary of Charan Singh is observed as Kisan Diwas. (PTI)
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Thursday accused the rival parties of painting a communal colour to the upcoming elections and stressed on the necessity to warn people against such designs.
"The rival parties, including the BJP, Samajwadi Party and others, are busy painting a Hindu-Muslim colour to the elections to hide their shortcomings. The BSP people will have to go to every village and every house to warn the people. This task must begin now," Mayawati, who has convened a meeting of in-charges of all the 18 divisions and all 75 district presidents to review poll preparations, told reporters.
Taking a dig at the BJP's claims of winning more than 300 seats, the former chief minister asked why in that case were the saffron party's senior leaders, ministers and the chief minister going all out making announcements, laying foundation stones and launching "half-baked" projects in the state, just before the elections. Mayawati said the SP, too, had been following a similar pattern and that the public was smart enough to realise this. (PTI)
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday demanded a high level inquiry into the revelations of an investigative report claiming that elected public representatives and relatives of state government officials bought land parcels in Ayodhya after the November 9, 2019, Supreme Court verdict clearing construction of a Ram temple in the district.
Responding to The Indian Express report, Mayawati said that the Supreme Court should intervene and the Centre should direct the Uttar Pradesh government to cancel these land deals.
The former UP chief minister’s statement came after Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered an inquiry into transactions and sought a report within a week. Read More
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said cow is mother and sacred to many people and those who find this as "sin" don't realise that livelihood of crores of people depends on cattle.
The PM was addressing a rally after inaugurating and laying foundation stones of 27 projects worth Rs 2,095 crore in Varanasi, his parliamentary constituency, just months ahead of the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.
Taking a jibe at rival parties, he said those making jokes on cows and buffaloes forget that the livelihood of crores of people depends on "pashudhan" (livestock). "Cow is mother and sacred to us," he said, adding that some find it as "sin". (PTI)
Attacking the Opposition, PM Modi said BJP government's mantra of 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas, Sabka Prayas' 'cannot be found in their (Opposition) syllabus'.
'Their syllabus, dictionary and vision is all about Mafiawad and Parivarwad', Modi said.
"Those making jokes on cows, buffaloes forget livelihood of crores depend on them," says PM Modi at a rally after inaugurating 27 projects worth Rs 2,095 crore in his Varanasi parliamentary constituency.
With his family members testing positive for Covid-19, Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said he will keep away from public programmes for three days as a precautionary measure.
Taking to twitter, he wished the joint rally of alliance partners SP-Rashtriya Lok Dal in Iglas 'immense success'. "Due to family members testing positive for coronavirus, I will not attend public programmes for three days as a precaution. Best wishes for the immense success of today's Iglas joint rally and appeal to all the workers to participate with full enthusiasm and energy," Yadav tweeted in Hindi. He also attached his negative RT-PCR test certificate.
The former chief minister's wife and former SP MP Dimple Yadav had tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday. (PTI)
"Milk production in India has increased by about 45% as compared to the last 6 to 7 years. Today, India produces about 22% of the world's milk. I am happy that today Uttar Pradesh is not only the largest milk producing state in the country, but also ahead in expansion of dairy sector," Modi said
"Today, foundation stone has been laid for 'Banas Dairy Sankul' as strengthening the dairy sector is one of the top priorities of our government," said Modi
Addressing the event, PM Modi said some people have made talking about cows a sin. "For some, speaking about cows must be a crime, but for us, cows are respected as mothers," Modi said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated 22 development projects worth over Rs 870 crore in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi.
After his wife and daughter tested positive for Covid-19, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that he will not be participating in public events for the next three days as a precautionary measure. Yadav shared a picture of his own Covid test results, which showed that he had tested negative for the infection.
Addressing the Indian Express' latest report on the Ayodhya land deals, BSP chief Mayawati said: "This is a serious matter. A high-level probe should be conducted in this matter. It would be best if the Supreme Court intervenes in this matter. The Central government should direct the state government to take this issue seriously." (ANI)
UP CM Yogi Adityanath speaks at an event to mark Kisan Diwas on ex-PM Chaudhary Charan Singh's birth anniversary: "We all know that before 2014, farmers were forced to die by suicide. Lakhs of farmers had died by suicide. But after 2014, with implementation of pro-farmer polices, you can see results."
On the day The Indian Express published an investigative report that elected public representatives and relatives of state government officials bought land parcels in Ayodhya after the November 9, 2019, Supreme Court verdict clearing construction of a Ram temple in the district, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath ordered an inquiry into transactions and sought a report within a week.
Confirming this, Manoj Kumar Singh, Additional Chief Secretary (Revenue), Uttar Pradesh, said, the Chief Minister has sought a report with relevant documents in the next 5-7 days. “Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has taken cognisance of the newspaper report. An inquiry has been ordered on his directive. An officer of the rank of Special Secretary has been asked to conduct the probe,” Singh told The Indian Express.
An official said Radhey Shyam Mishra, Special Secretary, Department of Revenue, has been asked to conduct the probe. Read more.
Rashtriya Lok Dal chief Jayant Chaudharyon seat-sharing with Samajwadi Party: "We have an understanding between us, we will fight together on 403 seats."
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel on Wednesday said that projects started getting completed only after Narendra Modi took over as the prime minister of the country in 2014.
“Modiji aaye toh kaam huye. Baaki to kai log aaye gaye. Kya kya kiya, kisiko pata hi nahi chala. [After Modi came to power, work started getting completed. Before him, many came and went. What all they did, no one knew],” Patel, who became chief minister of Gujarat after Modi became PM, said at the convocation ceremony of Chaudhary Charan Singh University (CCSU) in Meerut on Wednesday.
She said that previous governments both at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh did nothing that was visible to the people, whereas the present government’s work “can be seen and felt by all”. Read more.
BJP leader and Cabinet Minister Sidharth Nath Singh on Wednesday demanded an investigation into the assets of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and his family, accusing him of tax evasion.
Singh’s statement comes in the wake of the Income Tax Department conducting searches at the houses of an SP leader and three others considered close to Akhilesh Yadav.
“Akhilesh Yadav should accept that his ‘close ones’ are tax evaders and he is also a partner… The SP chief should make it clear as to what relations he has with those raided… The incomes of Akhilesh Yadav and his family should also be investigated. The SP had made preparations to fund the upcoming Assembly elections with this illegal money, but their plans could not be realised,” Singh, who is also the spokesperson of the UP government, said. Read more.
The Uttar Pradesh government on Wednesday said that it is planning to set up drone manufacturing units in the state to make the best use of drones in agriculture, disaster management, health, maintenance of law and order, among others.
At a high-level review meeting, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday directed the Infrastructure and Industrial Development Department to take necessary action for setting up drone manufacturing units in the state.
“Considering the importance of drones in various fields, including disaster relief, agriculture, maintenance of law and order, a concrete action plan should be prepared to establish a drone manufacturing unit in the state,” the CM was quoted as saying by the government. Read more.