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Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, 59 % polling recorded at the end of the fifth phase elections, covering 49 seats spread over 13 districts, including Bundelkhand region. Polling started at 7 am amidst tight security arrangements. Fate of 829 candidates, including that of Leader of Opposition in the state assembly Shivpal Singh Yadav, BJP leader Uma Bharati and former UP chief minister Kalyan Singh would be decided by more than 1.56 crore electorate.
The polling was held at 17,267 polling stations at 11,745 centres. While 2,104 stations were identified as sensitive, 2,256 had been marked as hyper-sensitive.
Kalyan Singh, who is the chief of Jan Kranti Party on Wednesday released its manifesto for the Uttar Pradesh assembly election favouring division of UP into four states and opposing sub-quota for minorities. Opposing any religion-based reservation, the manifesto said the party was against the Centre’s proposal to grant 4.5 per cent reservation to minorities within the 27 per cent OBC quota.
Favouring unemployment allowance for youths, the party promised free education to girls up to the higher education level and 20 per cent reservation for them in government jobs. The party also opposed the FDI in retail sector.
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Uttar Pradesh Assembly election 2012 The Jankranti Party leader Kalyan Singh will go it alone in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections with Ayodhya, price rise and corruption as its main poll plank. Kalyan Singh will launch his election campaign from Ayodhya.
Kalyan Singh said, We will not ally with any party and launch our campaign on December 22 from Ayodhya after offering prayers at the shrine of Ram Lalla. The party plans to contest all the 403 seats in the state assembly election 2012.
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and leader of Jan Kranti Party Kalyan Singh has said his party would contest the upcoming state assembly elections on its own and ruled out an alliance or merger with BJP.
Singh claimed that the BJP had lost the confidence of the people in the state.
He said his party has already released the first list of candidates while the next list would be released in October.
Elections for the Utter Pradesh legislature are scheduled to be held early next year.
Putting an end to speculations over his final homecoming, BJP rebel and former chief minister Kalyan Singh declared the first list of Jan Kranti Party’s candidates for 2012 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Kalyan had floated the outfit, headed now by son Rajveer, soon after his split with the saffron camp.
Addressing a press conference on Saturday, he ruled out any kind of association with “the gang of losers”. “BJP is dead in UP and my party will, therefore, have a free run this time,” Kalyan claimed adding that JKP’s performance in state election would be simply spectacularand spring quite a few…
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh on Wednesday said his Jankranti Party would contest the next assembly elections in the state alone and put up candidates in all the 403 seats. “Jankranti Party would go to the 2012 assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh alone, fielding its candidates in all the 403 seats “, Singh told mediapersons in Lucknow.
Singh, who celebrated his 77th birthday on Wednesday, said he, along with his son, who is the president of the party, would tour the state extensively in February in preparation for the coming elections.
To a question, Singh said that there was no…