On May 27, less than 48 hours after polling for phase 6 of the general elections ended, Lalitesh Pati Tripathi, Trinamool Congress’s candidate from the constituency of Bhadohi, Uttar Pradesh, tweeted a photo of five stacks of forms, and said, “Dear @ECISVEEP, @ceoup, I have collected form 17c from all the booths and tabulated the data of vote %. To …
Famous for weaving world-class carpets, the Bhadohi parliamentary constituency, where the lotus bloomed in 2014 and 2019, is witnessing a triangular fight among the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Samajwadi Party-supported Trinamool Congress and the Bahujan Samaj Party in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. The carpet artisans and other associated with this industry feel that their issues hardly find poll resonance …
In 2016, when Rahul Gandhi started his Khat Yatra from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh, it was RPN Singh who was at the forefront of it, being the biggest leader Congress had from Kushinagar region in eastern UP. It is apparent that all the four leaders in question, RPN Singh, Jitin Prasada, Lalitesh Tripathi and Imran Masood felt they simply cannot …
Two senior Congress leaders from Uttar Pradesh joined the Trinamool Congress in Siliguri in the presence of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Monday. Father-son duo Rajesh Pati Tripathi and Lalitesh Pati Tripathi, both formerly in the Congress, said they would continue the "fight" to dislodge BJP from power in UP and the Centre. Lalitesh Pati Tripathi took to Twitter …
West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee is keen on adding to the Trinamool Congress’ growing kitty of leaders poached from the Congress. Now it has set its eyes on Uttar Pradesh’s Lalitesh Tripathi, who resigned from the post of state Congress vice-president a fortnight ago for reasons not yet known. The TMC has opened a party office in Uttar Pradesh …
Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election to be held early next year, rumour has it that Congress leader Lalitesh Pati Tripathi has quit the party and may join the Samajwadi Party. A fourth-generation Congressman, he is the great-grandson of former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kamlapati Tripathi. He had been anointed vice-president of Uttar Pradesh Congress and made in charge …