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The Election Commission has announced the poll schedule for five states – Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Punjab and Goa.
While Manipur, Goa, Punjab and Uttarakhand will see a single-phase election, Uttar Pradesh will witness seven phases of polling. The counting will take place on March 4, 2012.
The polls will be held in Manipur on January 28, in Punjab and Uttarakhand on January 30, 2012 and in Goa on March 3. Polling in Uttar Pradesh will begin from February 4, and will conclude on February 28.
UP chief minister Mayawati is likely to announce the reorganization of Uttar Pradesh, splitting the sprawling state into four parts, in a move that her supporters are seeing as a poll-eve masterstroke.
Well-placed BSP sources said Mayawati is planning to carve four new states out of the country’s largest state which, with its 75 districts, is larger than many countries. As per the blueprint, the eastern part of the state with 32 districts will form a new state of Poorvanchal while the 22 western districts will be grouped together as Harit Pradesh. Bundelkhand will take seven districts while the remaining 14,…
Uttar Pradesh assembly polls 2012 , Samajwadi Party workers blocked a road near Aligarh and stopped Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s convey. The convoy was stopped by about ten men.
The area is considered to be a stronghold of Mulayam Singh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party where Rahul Gandhi was on his way to campaign for the upcoming UP assembly elections.
The suspense over the poll schedule for five state assemblies is likely to get over on Friday, with elections in UP being clubbed with those in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa, highly placed sources said on Wednesday, election Commission is likely to announce a detailed poll programme including more than five-phase election for the high stakes Uttar Pradesh that is likely to begin in February. Except UP, other states which will be in the fray are likely to have a single phase poll.
Sources in UP CEO’s office also indicated that poll in the state would begin in February. “All political…
Uttar Pradesh elections 2012, the Congress has planned out all the strategies. This time the party does not want to let the cat go out of bag. For this Congress has chosen Rahul Gandhi to face BSP in UP. Rahul Gandhi is equally focusing on dalits, generals, Muslims and the backward classes. BSP has become quite insecure after seeing Rahul Gandh’s active involvement. Congress has learnt a lesson from the Bihar assembly elections, so the party is taking each and every step with due care. The magic of party is spreading gradually this can be felt by looking at the…
Uttar Pradesh’s ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is likely to be replaced by Mulayam Singh’s Samajwadi Party (SP) as the single largest party in the 403-member assembly after elections next year, an opinion poll said Saturday, sTAR News-Nielsen survey, conducted in 202 constituencies of the state in November, also said that the “Rahul Gandhi factor” can make at least 24 percent non-Congress voters shift to the Congress.
The survey predicted BSP’s victory in 117 constituencies, a massive drop from its 2007 tally of 206. The SP is likely to win in 132 constituencies, a gain from its 2007 tally of 97,…