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After comeback in the party, the BJP leader Uma Bharti in the run-up to the 2012 elections in Uttar Pradesh, she started it from Nighasan village over the weekend, few days back, Uma took part in a protest at the village, 55 km north of Lakhimpur, to take on the BSP government over the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl, allegedly by the local police.
Uma Bharti said, “Isn’t it ironic that a state ruled by a woman has registered such crime against a girl?”, Yesterday, she was traveled from Lakhimpur to Lucknow, she received some welcome on her way. During…
The Uttar Pradesh chife minister Mawayati singled out Congress for attack, gave a detailed rebuttal to Rahul Gandh’s charges of embezzlement of public funds. Gandhi had alleged BSP’s elephant does not eat fodder but cash to drive home his point.”Congress is talking about MNREGA as if it was their contribution to the people. But I must tell them that it was Parliament which voted to make it a law and various parties including BSP voted for it. The scheme is implemented by funds collected through taxes levied from people. It is our money and not that of the Centre,” she…
Starting mission of up elections 2012, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said cm .Mayawati and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav have not responsible for the people of the state.“There was a time when the two leaders used to mingle with the masses. But now both of them have become big leaders who give no importance to the public of the state and their problems,” Gandhi told a gathering in Bahraich district, some 240 km from Lucknow.
He said unless the two leaders and other politicians meet the poor, visit their homes and share meals with them, they would not become aware…
The Congress released its first list of 73 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections with familiar names like state Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi being fielded from Lucknow Cantonment and Louise Khurshid, wife of union minister Salman Khurshid, again getting the Farrukhabad ticket.
The list of candidates was finalised by the Congress Election Committee headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Congress general secretaries Rahul Gandhi and Digvijay Singh, who is also in-charge of the party’s Uttar Pradesh affairs, as well as Congress Legislature Party (CLP) chief Pramod Tiwari and Rita Bahuguna Joshi were among those who attended the meeting in…