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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will contest the coming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh without announcing any Chief Ministerial candidate. The party has decided that it will select its chief minister only if it gets majority in the Assembly after the 2012 polls.
A member of the BJP’s Central Parliamentary Board said the central leadership has already discussed the issue and resolved to not declare any candidate for the CM post. Party state president Surya Pratap Shahi confirmed: “So far, it has been decided that no leader would be declared as chief ministerial candidate before the polls.”
But sources said the party…
After separately targeting the Congress and Bahujan Samaj Party on corruption in the past one year, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is now going to attack them jointly in Uttar Pradesh.
As the Assembly elections near, the BJP is preparing a booklet in which it has listed various scams and financial irregularities allegedly committed by both the UPA government at the Centre and BSP government in the state.
In the booklet, the BJP has said the UPA government is responsible for corruption worth Rs 4 lakh crore nationwide.
At the same time, it accused the BSP government of allegedly being involved in scams…
Selection of candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in the state is going to be a tough task for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as it has received over 3200 names for 403 constituencies, with an average of at least eight names for each seat.
Sources said that in some constituencies more than 10 candidates have submitted their application seeking tickets for the Assembly elections.
In the first two-day meeting of the party’s election committee that concluded here on Saturday, leaders held discussions over the names of these candidates but took no decision about any particular seat. Sources in the party said…
Six MLAs of the Samajwadi Party formally joined the ruling BSP ahead of the Assembly election in the state. Of them, five — Ashok Singh Chandel from Hamirpur, Sarvesh Singh Seepu from Azamgarh, Sandeep Agarwal from Moradabad, Sunder Singh Lodhi from Unnao and Sultan Beg from Bareilly — had been unofficialy with the BSP for several months and the ruling party had even given them tickets to contest the Assembly election. The only surprise was Suraj Singh Shakya, the MLA from Kanshiram Nagar.
Ashok Chandel, Sarvesh Singh and Sandeep Agarwal were suspended by the SP in January 2010 for siding with…
Two BJP MLAs and a BSP legislator in Uttar Pradesh along with their supporters joined the Samajwadi Party on Saturday.
BJP legislators Yashwant Singh Chauhan and Rajendra Singh and BSP MLA Bhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pandit had joined the SP.
The decision of the three MLAs to join the SP was announced at a press conference by SP state chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Apart from them, UP BJP secretary and former MLA Gomti Yadav and former MLA Kishen Lal Baghel also joined the SP.
SP said it would field the two sitting BJP MLAs, Pandit as well as Gomti Yadav in next year’s Assembly elections.…
Ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday said it will organise rallies and public meetings in the state to take on the Mayawati-led BSP government which, it alleged, had failed to protect the rights of women and dalits.
“BJP is strengthening its organisation in UP with the active participation of senior Central and state leaders. Six successful Mahasangram rallies have already been held by the party in the state. Six more public rallies and protests will be held starting July 21,” party spokesperson Ramnath Kovind said.
Firebrand Hindutva leader Uma Bharti, who has been given…