Lucknow Mar 25 PTI BJP leader and outgoing Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Friday said he will continue to strengthen the party to ensure that it emerges winner in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls Sharma has been replaced as deputy CM in the new BJP-led state government by another Brahmin leader Brajesh Pathak He congratulated new ministers who took oath on Friday and wished May the double-engine government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath continue to work for the people of the state I will continue to work for the party and strengthen it As a party worker I will work to ensure that the BJP emerges victorious in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections Sharma told PTI Sharma dismissed speculations of him being next Uttar Pradesh BJP chief With Swatantra Dev Singh taking oath as a cabinet minister the post is likely to fall vacant and a new state unit chief of the party may be named a senior UP BJP leader said Sharma 58 had earlier served as the mayor of Lucknow He did not contest the just-concluded Assembly polls He is currently a member of the state Legislative Council Yogi Adityanath on Friday took oath as Uttar Pradesh chief minister for the second term in a mega ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak were also sworn in as deputy chief ministers PTI NAV SNS RDK RDK

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], March 25 (ANI): Sticking with the Brahmin-OBC combination for Deputy Chief Ministers, Brajesh Pathak along with Keshav Prasad Maurya took oath on Friday as deputies of CM Yogi Adityanath.

New Delhi [India], March 17 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Uttar Pradesh core committee held a six-hour-long crucial meeting on Wednesday to discuss the formation of government in the state.

Ahmedabad Feb 23 PTI Gujarat Congress leader and former Leader of Opposition in the BJP-ruled Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation AMC Dinesh Sharma on Wednesday resigned from the primary membership of the partyHours after Sharma announced his resignation Gujarat Congress President Jagdish Thakor suspended him from the party for making serious allegations against party leaders and their working styleSharma was appointed the Leader of Opposition LoP of the BJP-ruled AMC by the Congress leadership following the 2015 local bodies polls However just months before the polls in February 2021 he was removed from the post Later he lost the civic electionsEver since his unceremonious exit as the LoP Sharma had been vocal about the partys functioning and had also tried to make a representation to Congress leader Rahul GandhiIn his resignation letter Sharma has said though he had tried hard to push leaders to take quick decisions and strengthen the party there was absolutely no change in the organizations functioningThe Congress party is suffering because of its working style and lack of decision-making ability I can not endure this at the cost of my own self respect Since none of my suggestions were accepted I am left with no other option but to leave the party said Sharma a three-time Congress corporatorAfter giving his resignation Sharma made some scathing remarks about top party leaders including Rahul GandhiJagdish Thakor had once threatened a past state unit president with a sword Instead of suspending him he is now made the president Some selected leaders are running the show in Gujarat and they are not allowing young leaders like me to come forward and take the lead Sharma told reportersAnyone can meet the Prime Minister within 24 hours of taking an appointment But Rahul Gandhi who is not in power does not have time to meet party leaders like me I tried to meet him when I was the LoP But he could not spare even one minute said SharmaLater in the day Thakor issued Sharmas suspension letter saying he has made baseless and derogatory remarks about the partys top leadersThe Congress is an ocean and it is made up of crores of party workers Since the Assembly elections are approaching it is natural for some people to switch sides Exit of some people will not impact the party Thakor told reporters PTI PJT PD RSY RSY

Lucknow Feb 21 PTI Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Monday said the BJP is going to break all its previous victory records in the ongoing assembly polls in the stateToday the wind is blowing in support of the BJP Many veterans of rival political parties will have their poll deposits forfeited The opposition which was planning to cross the electoral river on the plank of casteism and communal polarisation has been washed away Sharma said at an election meeting hereThe wind blowing in favour of the BJP has dashed the hopes of the opposition he saidThe BJP government gave facilities to the people while governments of the opposition parties gave the pain of loot murder dacoity riots and crimes against women In the past five years there were no riots in the state Sharma saidHe added that during the previous governments people were forced to undertake exodus in western Uttar Pradesh while under the BJP government action has been initiated against criminals and the mafia has fled the stateLucknow will vote on February 23 PTI NAV IJT

Noida Jan 23 PTI Rival parties including Congress Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party will not be able to get 100 seats together in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls BJP leader Dinesh Sharma on Sunday said Sharma the deputy chief minister of UP said the BJP is fighting the election on development issue and hit out at the opposition parties for encouraging criminal elements communalism in states politics The elimination of regionalism family politics and mafia-rule is the objective of the BJP which fights polls on agendas of development he told reporters while campaigning for partys Tejpal Nagar in Dadri I feel western Uttar Pradesh will break its own previous record by supporting the BJP with more votes this time he said On Priyanka Gandhi Vadra denying she is Congress CM candidate Sharma said he need not say much about it as TV surveys are forecasting a mere 3-7 seats for her party Their combined figures in the upcoming polls will not reach three-digit the deputy CM said predicting opposition parties tally The BJP will get over 50 per cent of the votes and break its own record of securing votes in the state he said of his party which had stormed to power in 2017 with over 300 MLAs in the 403-member assembly Sharma alleged earlier political parties in UP would harp on communal issues and polarize minority voters even winning elections in the past But the people of UP have now tasted the benefits of development Now there is no space for caste-based or communal politics he said Sharma claimed there is a rising fear in public that mafia and criminal elements will come back again in the state as some opposition parties have fielded criminals or their family members as candidates for polls There are also some criminals who are openly supporting some parties indirectly warning people that if people do not support them the criminals will create an atmosphere of terror This should not happen the state has changed now he said UP is no longer a state of exodus but a state of development Anti-social elements do not have any place in UP now Their place has been replaced by development jobs good health education and these are the agendas of the BJP Dadri in western UPs Gautam Buddh Nagar district goes to polls on February 10 BJP has fielded sitting MLA Tejpal Nagar once again from the seat which has 15 other candidates in fray The results will be declared on March 10 PTI KIS VN VN VN

New Delhi [India], December 26 (ANI): Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma on Sunday informed that the state government has undertaken several reforms in the education policy of the state and has added many employment oriented courses.

New Delhi Nov 24 PTI In a bid to woo Dalit voters ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls the BJPs SC Morcha will organise 20 big programmes covering nearly 150 Assembly segments in the state to mark the Constitution Day with special emphasis on B R Ambedkar Sharing the details of the programmes Lal Singh Arya the president of the BJPs SC wing said the Samvidhan Gaurav Yatra will be organised by the party workers in all districts across the country on November 26 which is celebrated as Constitution Day to commemorate the adoption of the Constitution Arya said the programmes will conclude on December 6 the death anniversary of Ambedkar Addressing a press conference here Arya said all district units of the BJP will organise programmes on Constitution Day at their respective offices He said all these programmes will start by bowing in front of the Constitution and its chief architect B R Ambedkar Asked about the events being organised in Uttar Pradesh Arya said 20 big programmes have been planned in Uttar Pradesh Many of these programmes will be addressed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and his deputies Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma he said These programmes will be spanned over 20 districts covering nearly 150 assembly constituencies Sources said the special emphasis on these programmes will be on Dalit icon Ambedkar His large-size portraits will be used in the public rallies carried out by BJP workers PTI JTR CK

Lucknow Oct 25 PTI Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Monday attacked opposition parties saying they cannot tolerate Prime Minister Narendra Modi as he has blocked all avenues that lead to corruptionAddressing the Samajik Pratinidhi Sammelan here organised by the backward classes front of the BJP Maurya said The opposition parties cannot tolerate Prime Minister Narendra Modi because Modi ji has blocked all avenues which lead to corruption In the 2022 UP Assembly election the lotus of good governance development progress and prosperity of the poor should bloom The prime minister is working to take the country on the path of honesty while the opponents are indulging in propaganda The opposition is an automatic machine which speaks only lies he saidThe mantra of the BJP is sabka saath sabka vikas while that of the SP BSP and Congress is development of family and promoting corruption he addedEarlier Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma said the opposition is going to be wiped off in the upcoming pollsThe opposition is spreading rumours The British resorted to divide and rule policy The Congress also works on this policy The country has incurred huge losses due to panja Sharma said referring to the hand symbol of the Congress party PTI NAV RHL

New Delhi [India], September 20 (ANI): Delhi and District Cricket Association (DDCA) director Dinesh Sharma on Monday stated that the association will form a committee to investigate the content of a video of U-19 selector Pradeep Chawla that has been circulating on the internet. In this video, a woman can be seen beating the selector with slippers.