Bhopal: BJP Vice-President Uma Bharti, a sitting MLA from Uttar Pradesh, is likely to contest the next Lok Sabha election from Amroha in the neighbouring state. "The BJP is seriously considering fielding Bharti, a prominent face of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement, from Amroha seat in Uttar Pradesh," sources close to her said on Friday.
The former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister forayed into Uttar Pradesh poll politics in 2012 and was elected from Charkhari Assembly constituency. Charkhari is part of Bundelkhand, a backward region spread over both the states.
Party President Rajnath Singh, who inducted Bharti in his new team announced in March, has already taken her consent for Amroha in north-west Uttar Pradesh. Aligarh, too, is on the radar of the BJP leadership for her, they said.
The sources denied reports that the 53-year-old firebrand leader may contest the Lok Sabha polls from Bhopal, a seat which she won in 1999. The party wants to utilise her services in Uttar Pradesh, a state having the maximum (80) Lok Sabha seats and which also gave birth to the Ram temple movement, to cash in on her image as a top Hindutva leader, they said....
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04:58 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Amroha: Violent clashes broke out on Monday in the ruling Samajwadi Party's stronghold of Amroha over an ongoing power crisis. The police lathicharged some of the protestors who were staging a sit-in at the Hasanpur area. The mob retaliated by torching several police vehicles as well as trucks, a bus and a car. The situation is said to be under control now. It's unclear whether there were any injuries or...
11:12 AM, Jul 17, 2012
Amroha (UP): At least 15 people were killed and 24 others injured, two of them critically, when a bus rammed into a tree on Amroha-Joya road in the wee hours on Monday. The incident took place at around 2 am when the overloaded bus coming from Haridwar was on its way to Kamalpura village in Sambal district, police said. While 13 persons were killed on the spot, two others succumbed...
09:28 AM, Jun 25, 2012
New Delhi: A 23-year-old man was allegedly killed by his friend on Monday in central Delhi apparently after an altercation, police said. The incident was reported from outside a meat shop in Hauz Qazi and the deceased has been identified as Danish, who hailed from Uttar Pradesh's Amroha. A passerby found the body at around 1:30 am and informed police. Danish's throat was slit with a butcher's knife, they said....
07:40 PM, Apr 23, 2012
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11:56 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Monday wrote to the Chief Secretary of Uttar Pradesh demanding action on the Amroha baby sale case by April 23. Taking cognizance of the CNN-IBN Cobrapost expose on babies for sale, the NCPCR asked the state government to get the alleged racket, not only in Amroha/JP Nagar but also in the hospitals/nursing homes throughout the state, thoroughly investigated...
05:33 PM, Apr 16, 2012
New Delhi: An FIR has been filed against seven employees, including two doctors of a government hospital in Amroha where a CNN-IBN-Cobrapost expose caught staff and a man selling his child in the act. The action comes after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav took note of the investigation and instructed the district administration to probe the matter. A CNN-IBN Cobrapost expose on babies for sale shows how a government...
07:54 AM, Apr 16, 2012
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has decided to investigate the matter related to baby trafficking in UP government hospitals. ...
10:41 PM, Apr 13, 2012
New Delhi: National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) Chairperson Dr Shanta Sinha has promised a thorough probe into the selling of babies in Uttar Pradesh. A CNN-IBN Cobra Post expose on babies for sale shows how a government hospital in Amroha in Western Uttar Pradesh has become a shop for babies. For a price, the staff of the hospital steal children of poor parents and sell them to...
08:06 AM, Apr 13, 2012
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11:53 PM, Apr 12, 2012
An investigation by CNN-IBN and Cobrapost has revealed that a government hospital in Amroha sells children. ...
11:48 PM, Apr 12, 2012
Amroha: A government hospital is expected to be a safe haven for those who cannot pay for medical attention. But, a government hospital in Amroha in Western Uttar Pradesh has a different story as it has become a shop for babies. For a price, the staff of the hospital steal children of poor parents and sell them to the highest bidder. Here is the conversation between a nurse at the...
10:10 PM, Apr 12, 2012
