Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Varanasi seat is among the thirteen Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh going to the polls in the seventh and final phase of the election. In the prestigious Gorakhpur seat, once synonymous with Mr. Adityanath, the sitting BJP MP Ravi Kishan is taking on SP candidate Kajal Nishad. ‘Growth engine of India’ In his campaign, Mr. …
In January 2017, just weeks ahead of voting for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls campaign, the Bahujan Samaj Party, desperate to return to power, made a risky move of welcoming into its ranks criminally tainted MLA from Purvanchal, Mukhtar Ansari, his brothers Afzal Ansari and Sigbatullah Ansari, and son Abbas. While defending the induction of the jailed MLA Mukhtar Ansari, …
