Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], July 9 (ANI): In an indication of a rift inside the Opposition in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav's uncle Shivpal Singh Yadav along with Om Prakash Rajbhar, who is an ally of the SP, have extended their support to NDA-backed presidential candidate Droupadi Murmu.

Lucknow Apr 25 PTI The newly elected members of the UP Legislative Council will be administered oath on Tuesday officials said Principal Secretary to UP Legislative Council Rajesh Singh in a statement issued here on Monday said that Chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh will administer the oath to the new members at Tilak Hall in UP Vidhan Bhavan Over a month after its resounding victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the BJP has swept the biennial polls to the states Legislative Council by winning 33 out of 36 constituencies One of three local authority seats the ruling party failed to win was in Varanasi Prime Minister Narendra Modis Lok Sabha constituency where it stood a distant third According to the results declared on Tuesday the BJP won 24 of the 27 seats where polling was held last week In addition the BJP had won nine of the 36 seats unopposed Two independents and a candidate from the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik emerged victorious in the elections The results take the BJP past the halfway-mark in the 100-member House Now it will have 67 members in the upper house of the state legislature Before the polls the BJP had 34 members in the House Besides the BJPs 67 MLCs Samajwadi Party has 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Party has four MLCs in the House The Congress Apna Dal Sonelal and the Nishad Party have one member each in the House The teachers group has two MLCs while the Independent group Nirdal Samooh and Independents have one MLC each Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had vacated his council seat recently while former leader of opposition Ahmad Hassan of the SP died in February this year The voters in the biennial elections are village pradhans members and chairman of block development councils and zila panchayats and corporators in urban areas besides MLAs and MPs The Congress and the BSP did not field any candidate in the Legislative Council elections making it a direct fight between the BJP and the SP PTI NAV KVK KVK

Lucknow Mar 28 PTI Veteran BJP MLA Satish Mahana is all set to be the speaker of the 18th legislative assembly of Uttar PradeshThe legislator from the Maharajpur seat in Kanpur district filed his nomination papers for the speakers post on Monday Sources in the assembly said Mahana was the lone candidate to file his nomination The deadline was at 2 pmMahana handed over his nomination papers to the principal secretary of the assembly Pradip Kumar Dubey in the presence of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Deputy Chief Ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak and senior minister Surya Pratap Shahi among othersCongress legislature party leader Aradhana Mishra Mona and Jansatta Dal Loktantrik leader Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiya were also presentGovernor Anandiben Patel has fixed March 29 as the date for the election of the speakerMahana was elected as MLA for the eighth time from the Maharajpur assembly seat He was the minister for industrial development in the previous governmentIn the recently held Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the BJP won 255 seats of the total 403 while its allies Apna Dal Sonelal got 12 and the Nirbal Indian Shoshit Hamara Aam Dal Nishad got sixMain opposition in Uttar Pradesh the Samajwadi Party won 111 seats while its ally the Rashtriya Lok Dal got eight and the Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party sixApart from this the Congress won two seats the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik two and the Bahujan Samaj Party one seat PTI SAB IJT

Pratapgarh (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 28 (ANI): Ahead of the sixth phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, Jansatta Dal Loktantrik founder Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias 'Raja Bhaiya' has been booked for thrashing a polling agent of Samajwadi Party.