Lucknow Mar 20 PTI The Samajwadi Party on Sunday said it would celebrate the 112th birth anniversary of Dr Ram Manohar Lohia on March 23 across Uttar Pradesh The birth anniversary of the socialist leader and thinker will be celebrated across the state SP spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhury said On this day conferences on Lohias ideology and thoughts will be held at all district offices of the party he said A prominent socialist thinker and political leader Lohia was born on March 23 1910 in Akbarpur a tehsil-level city in Ambedkar Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh The Samajwadi Party considers Lohia its guiding light and claims to follow his socialist policies for the creation of a socialist society PTI ABN RAX RAX

Lucknow Nov 17 PTI Uttar Pradesh has become the first state in the country to provide Covid vaccination security cover to 4 crore people with both its doses In UP total 1433 crore doses of Covid vaccine have been administered with 1033 crore people taking the first dose and over 41 crore both Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath made this announcement on his tweeter handle terming the states record achievement as teeka jeet ka vaccine of victory UP has become the first state in the country to provide complete protection cover of both doses of Covid vaccine to more than 4 crore citizens the chief minister said This achievement is made under the efficient guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi he added in his tweet dedicating the achievement to the hard work of all health workers and all citizens who got the teeka jeet ka vaccine of victory In UP over 1433 crore people have taken the Covid vaccine including over 1032 crore who have taken the first dose a senior health official said PTI ABN RAX RAX

Lucknow Sep 29 PTI Ahead of the crucial 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections the BSP on Wednesday formally announced its Twitter account and requested people to follow it and strengthen the BSP movement Just to inform everyone that the official account of the Bahujan Samaj Party has been verified bspindia I would appeal to everyone to follow the official account of BSP and strengthen the movement BSP national general secretary Satish Chandra Mishra said in a tweet He tagged party supremo Mayawati with hashtags JaiBhim and JaiBharat BSP president Mayawati had for the first time joined Twitter in February before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls to interact with the media and masses PTI ABN RAX RAX

Lucknow Sep 29 PTI Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday promised to go in for the caste census in Uttar Pradesh if voted to power He made the promise alleging that the BJP-led central government is fighting shy of conducting it fearing that the caste census in the country will lead to the backward classes of people demanding their rights and due respect after this The BJP government at the Centre does not want to conduct caste census as it knows that backwards will demand their right and due respect after it This is the biggest demand of backwards and Dalits Akhilesh Yadav said in a statement here Promising caste census in Uttar Pradesh if his party is voted to power in 2022 assembly polls Akhilesh said We will ensure that backwards get their rights Alleging that the crime rate in UP has grown exponentially Akhilesh Yadav said The chief minister lies on the matter of crime and does not have any information on the NCRB data The highest number of crimes against women is committed in UP he asserted He also reiterated his charge that veteran SP leader Azam Khan is being kept in jail in false cases Azam Khan has been kept in jail in fake cases he said adding maximum custodial deaths in the state have occurred during the present BJP regime The CM visits his home district Gorakhpur regularly but crime is rising there he alleged adding police beat up a Kanpur businessman visiting there to death Even saints are not safe in UP where over 40 sadhu and saints have been killed he said Terming the governance in UP a complete failure Akhilesh said Common men are not heard The BJP MLAs and MPs have to face the peoples opposition in their own areas He said the Centre is on a privatisation spree and if everything will be privatised there will be no need of implementing reservation On the Covid vaccination drive he asked Why do the vaccination certificates not carry the photograph of the national flag He said the government should withdraw three farm laws as it would help business houses take away farmers land The farmers will teach a lesson to the BJP in the coming assembly polls he predicted PTI ABN RAX RAX

Lucknow Aug 25 PTI The total number of COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh increased to 1709173 on Wednesday as 22 more people tested positive for the contagious disease while the death toll remained at 22794 with no fresh fatalities a health bulletin issued here said The total number of recoveries in the state reached 1686034 the statement said The number of active cases in Uttar Pradesh stands at 345 it said Till now over 71 crore samples were tested in the state it said adding it included over 187 lakh tests on Tuesday PTI ABN RAX RAX