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Akhilesh Yadav, who is new chief minister of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday kept the bulk of ministries, including the key Home and Finance, with him. controversial independent MLA Raghuraj Pratap Singh alias Raja Bhaiyya, who was jailed by previous chief minister Mayawati and against whom there are pending criminal cases of attempt to murder, kidnapping and abduction, has been given Prison department.
Another senior leader and Samajwadi Party’s Muslim face Azam Khan has been allocated Parliamentary Affairs, Muslim waqf, Urban Development, Minority Welfare and Haj, besides Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation. Ahmad Hasan has got Medical and Health, Family Welfare and…
38 years old Akhilesh Yadav, will be the new Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh. He will also be the youngest ever to hold that position. Mr Yadav’s name was proposed by senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan at a legislative party meeting today. Soon after being elected, Mr Yadav thanked UP, promised to fulfill all promises that he had made in his exhaustive election campaign and the party’s manifesto and made clear that his father, Mulayam Singh Yadav, a three-time Chief Minister himself, would play an important role. (Read: Why Mulayam Singh still matters much)
“Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) will remain…
The final phase of UP polls today is in the western part and Terai region of the state. Polling covering 60 constituencies began today with around 24.59 per cent of voters exercising their franchise till 11 am. 968 candidates will battle it out today in 60 constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. Most of these constituencies like Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur and Lakhempur Kheri fall under the Tarai region of the state.
With 28 per cent Muslim voters in these 60 odd constituencies, the Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan, the party’s Muslim face is one of the tallest leaders in the fray from the Rampur city…
The Notification for the seventh and last phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly election was issued on Monday with which nominations process also started. The seventh phase would decide the fate of Muslim face of Samajwadi Party Mohd Azam Khan from Rampur and Saurabh Singh, son of BSP MP and coordintaor Jugul Kishore from Kasta.
Polling for seventh phase of elections covering 60 seats spread over Bijnore, Moradabad, Bhimnagar, Rampur, Jyotiba Phule Nagar, Badaun, Bareilly. Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur and Lakhimpur Kheri, would be held on March 3. More than 1.80 crore voters are expected to cast their votes at 17,640 polling booths at…
Former SP leader Amar Singh has decided to field Jaya Prada, the MP from Rampur, as the candidate of his Rashtriya Lok Manch against Samajwadi Party leader and rival Azam Khan in the coming Assembly polls.
The Competition between Khan and Jaya Prada goes back to parliamentary elections in 2009, when Khan wanted the wife of slain Mumbai ATS chief Hemant Karkare, Kavita Karkare, as the SP candidate from Rampur. The SP, however, decided to field Jaya, who was the sitting MP from Rampur. She won and Khan was ousted from SP then.
Rashtriya Lok Manch has decided to pit Jaya against…
Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday revoked the expulsion of senior leader Azam Khan, who was expelled from the party after Lok Sabha polls last year.
According to source “SP National General Secretary Ram Gopal Yadav has written a letter to Khan informing him about Mulayam Yadav’s decision to revoke his suspension,”.
“I am extremely happy to inform you that SP national president Mulayam Singh Yadav has revoked your expulsion from the party,” Mr. Ram Gopal said in the letter.
Mr. Azam Khan, formerly a general secretary of the party, was considered a close aide of the SP leader since his early days in…