Lucknow Mar 25 PTI Dinesh Sharma Shrikant Sharma and Siddharth Nath Singh are among the prominent faces who are missing from the UP government this time as new ministers took oath at a grand swearing-in ceremony here on Friday The oath ceremony was held at Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Stadium in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and top BJP leaders Dinesh Sharma who in the previous Yogi Adityanath government held the charge of the deputy CM has been replaced by Brajesh Pathak Dinesh Sharma is the member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council Shrikant Sharma and Siddharth Nath Singh also failed to make the cut Shrikant Sharma held the charge of the power minister in the previous BJP-led government while Siddharth Nath Singh held the MSME portfolio The name of Satish Mahana who headed the industry department in the previous BJP government and was elected from Maharajpur in Kanpur district was missing from the list of new ministers Ramapati Shastri a BJP MLA from Mankapur in Gonda district too was left out Earlier he held the charge of the social welfare minister With UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh taking oath as a cabinet minister the post of state party chief is likely to fall vacant and a new leader may be appointed to the position a senior leader said citing the one person one post principle Among the leaders who failed to get a ministerial berth this time were Jai Pratap Singh Ram Naresh Agnihotri Ashutosh Tandon Neelkanth Tiwari and Mahendra Singh Mohsin Raza who was the lone Muslim minister in the previous state government was replaced by Danish Azad Ansari Swami Prasad Maurya Dharam Singh Saini and Dara Singh Chauhan who were ministers in the previous BJP government had quit the BJP just ahead of the Assembly polls and contested from the Opposition Samajwadi Party Ministers Mukut Bihari Verma and Swati Singh were not given ticket by the BJP in the just-concluded Assembly polls PTI NAV RDK RDK

Lucknow, February 28: 57 seats in 10 districts will be up for grabs in the sixth phase in Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022 as the state gears up for the voting on Thursday, March 3. Election campaigns of all parties will end at 5 pm on Wednesday. Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2022: From Gorakhpur to […]

Lucknow Feb 22 PTI The Sarojininagar assembly constituency in Lucknow is set for a close contest between the BJP and the Samajwadi Party which has emerged as a strong challenger to the ruling party amid an apparent anti-incumbency waveThe Sarojininagar assembly constituency located in south Lucknow has a mix of urban and rural voters and over 50 village panchayats fall under itWhile the urban voters usually align with the BJP the rural voters are reluctant in showing their support to any specific partyOur village is located hardly a kilometre away from housing society developed by the Lucknow Development Authority LDA yet the approach road to our village is in shambles We have written to the BJP MLA on several occasion but nothing was done The BJP MLA didnt even come to meet us after winning The villagers will keep this in mind when they vote this time said Deepak Verma a resident of Barauna village in the constituencyBeside the rural voters have also expressed anger with the ruling party over the issue of stray cattle and rising inflationA local vegetable farmer of the area Ramesh Pal complained I like Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath but they have done nothing to resolve the issue of stray cattle which destroy our cropsWe have to guard our fields all night from stray cattle The prices of every day items have also gone up in the last couple of years making it difficult to accommodate the expenses of the family in limited earnings he saidSensing the anti-incumbency wave the BJP denied ticket to sitting MLA Swati Singh and announced the name of former Enforcement Directorate director Rajeshwar Singh from the seatSingh in his election campaign has promised development the infrastructure in the constituency The challenger Samajwadi Party has pitted former minster Abhishek Mishra who is known to be the trusted lieutenant of party president Akhilesh YadavMishra a former minister in his campaign has alleged that the BJP has failed to take up development in the regionThe BSP has announced the name of Jalees Khan while the Congress is betting on Rudra Daman Singh to win this seatSarojininagar has over 55 Lakh voters of which almost half are rural voters The seat includes substantial Muslim Dalit Chhatriya Brahmin and other backward castes votesAround 15 lakh voters are young who will play a pivotal role in deciding the winner on the seatHistorically Sarojininagar has never been the home turf of BJP despite falling under urban areaThe party won the seat for the first time in 2017 under a strong Modi wave in the stateBefore that Sarojininagar seat has been held thrice by Samajwadi Party 1993 1996 2012 and twice by Bahujan Samaj Party 2002 2007 while the Congress candidate managed to win once in 1991In 2017 BJP candidate Swati Singh secured over one lakh votes The SP candidate stood second with just over 74000 votes followed closely by the BSP candidate who secured 71000 votesAccording to locals Congress candidate Rudra Daman Singh can be the game changer from SarojininagarSingh got 21000 votes when he fought independently in the 2017 election and 41000 votes in 2012 election He also holds influence on the rural votes of the constituencyA sway of rural voters towards Congress can make the election difficult for BJP and favour Samajwadi Party candidate PTI CDN ABN TDS TDS

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 7 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday released a list of 45 candidates for the upcoming assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.

Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 2 (ANI): Samajwadi Party (SP) is likely to field BJP's Allahabad MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi's son Mayank Joshi from Lucknow Cantonment seat for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election after the Bharatiya Janata Party denied ticket to the latter, said sources on Wednesday.