Lucknow Apr 26 PTI The 36 new members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council who were recently elected from local authority constituencies took oath here on TuesdayUP Legislative Council chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh administered the oath of office to the newly elected membersAll the members took oath in Hindi while some of them raised the slogan of Jai Shri Ram and Bharat Mata ki Jai after the oath-taking ceremonyProminent among those who took the oath are Minister of State independent charge Dinesh Pratap Singh who was elected from Rae Bareli constituencyTwo independent MLCs and MLC of Jansatta Dal Loktantrik from Pratapgarh Akshay Pratap Singh also took oath on the day Rest of the winning legislators are from the BJPA court in Pratapgarh had recently cancelled the bail of Akshay Pratap Singh and ordered his arrest in a case of getting arms licence on a fake address a government counsel said on SaturdayUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya UP BJP chief and cabinet minister Swatantra Dev Singh were also present on the occasionA month after its resounding victory in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections the BJP swept the biennial polls to the states legislative council by winning 33 out of 36 constituenciesOne of the three local authority seats it failed to bag was in Varanasi Prime Minister Narendra Modis Lok Sabha constituency where it stood a distant third According to the results declared on April 12 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 unopposedTwo 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 HouseIn the 100-member Legislative Council the BJP will now have 67 MLCs Samajwadi Party SP 17 and the Bahujan Samaj Party BSP four The Congress Apna Dal Sonelal and the NISHAD party have one member each in the HouseThe teachers group has two MLCs while the independent group Nirdal Samooh and Independents have one MLC eachMeanwhile Adityanath had vacated his council seat recently while former leader of opposition Ahmad Hassan of the SP died in February this yearThe voters in this biennial election are village pradhans members and chairmen of block development councils and zila panchayats and corporators in urban areas Members of legislative assembly MLAs and members of parliament MPs also voteThe 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 SRY

Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradesh) [India], April 9 (ANI): After casting vote in the elections for the members of the Legislative Council, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after almost four decades will attain a majority in the Upper House.

Lucknow Mar 25 PTI Considered a close aide of PM Narendra Modi Arvind Kumar Sharma kicked off his political innings after taking voluntary retirement from the Indian Administrative Service and became a member of the UP Legislative Council He was sworn in as Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister on Friday A Gujarat-cadre officer and a native of Uttar Pradeshs Mau district Sharma earlier served Modi when he was the chief minister of the state After Modis election as PM he joined him in the PMO Soon after taking voluntary retirement in January last year he joined the Bharatiya Janata Party He was also made the vice-president of the UP unit of the party Speculations had continued over Sharma being given some important assignment in the state government ever since he came to UP but nothing of that sort happened It was during the second wave of Covid that he gained attention for his work in Varanasi PM Modis parliamentary constituency He is credited with helping Varanasi cut down the number of Covid cases to a large extent He was also praised by Modi for his work in the district PTI SAB RDK

Lucknow Mar 22 PTI Uttar Pradesh chief minister-designate Yogi Adityanath has resigned from the membership of the state legislative council officials said on TuesdayAdityanath sent his resignation letter to Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council chairman Kunwar Manvendra Singh Monday evening and it has been accepted the Council secretariat said here on TuesdayThe BJP leaders term as member of the legislative council was till July 6 2022Adityanath who led his party to a thumping victory in the recent assembly elections had won the Gorakhpur Urban seat He is all set to be sworn in as the chief minister for the second term on March 25The priest-turned-politician was elected to the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council in 2017 after becoming the chief minister for the first timeEarlier he had represented the Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat PTI SAB SRY

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said he will contest the assembly polls next year if his party decides so. Adityanath had not contested the state polls in 2017 and is currently a member of the UP Legislative Council. Also watch: UP elections 2022: BJP chalks out 100-day plan as top leaders meet Asked if he […]

Lucknow Oct 27 PTI Four new members of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council including state minister Jitin Prasada were administered oath at a function here on Wednesday Besides Prasada Sanjay Nishad who heads Nishad Nirbal Indian Shosit Hamara Aam Dal Party Chaudhary Virendra Singh Gujjar and Gopal Anjan Bhurji were administered oath by Chairman of the Legislative Council Manvendra Singh in Tandon hall of the Assembly The four members were nominated to the upper house of the legislature last month UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Dinesh Sharma were among those who were present on the occasion Prasada who hails from Shahjahanpur had recently crossed over to the BJP from Congress and was also made a minister in the Yogi Adityanath government Sanjay Nishad was in the news for his demand that the BJP should project him as a deputy chief ministerial face in the upcoming assembly elections He had claimed that Nishads fishermen constitute about 18 per cent of the electorate and play a deciding role in 160 assembly seats The Nishad Party had contested the 2017 assembly elections in alliance with the Peace Party led by Dr Mohamed Ayub and contested 72seats Its candidate Vijay Mishra had won from Gyanpur seat in Bhadohi district Union minister and BJP in-charge for UP Dharmendra Pradhan had recently announced a tie-up with the Nishad Party for the 2022 election In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls the party entered into an alliance with the BJP and Sanjay Nishads son Praveen Nishad was nominated from Sant Kabir Nagar from where he won the elections PTI SAB HDA