Chunav Flashback: In 1985, the Bijnor Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh witnessed an interesting bypoll contest between Congress' Meira Kumar, Janata Dal's Ram Vilas Paswan and Bahujan Samaj Party's Mayawati. It was for the very first time when Congress leader Meira Kumar entered into the electoral politics and faced two big dalit leaders, Ram Vilas Paswan and Mayawati. As …
The Samajwadi Party-Congress seat-sharing deal for the Lok Sabha election may have raised expectations in the alliance that it will consolidate the Muslim vote and fortify the INDIA bloc’s position in at least 24 Muslim dominated constituencies out of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. Muslims account for 19% of Uttar Pradesh’s population and their voting behaviour is …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday invoked Jat leader and former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh in western Uttar Pradesh even as he slammed the Samajwadi Party-Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance in the context of the UP polls. Both SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary have been campaigning in the region where they have been taking “anna pledge” …
