Rae Bareilly: Congress star campaigner Priyanka Gandhi staying positive about the coming Assembly Elections in Uttar Pradesh said the party will win more seats than the last time. Supporting the Union Home Minister who is caught in the 2G spectrum scam, Priyanka said as a Home Minister he has huge responsibility. "I feel sad when he has to respond to the rants of the people, who are not concerned with...
04:42 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Lucknow: The Election Commission on Tuesday declined to give permission to BJP leader Uma Bharti to take out a rath yatra in the state capital as it did not fulfil certain formalities. "Permission was not granted as the party failed to submit a certificate from the regional transport office or an affidavit that it conforms to the Motor Vehicle Act," Chief Electoral Officer Umesh Sinha told. He said that as...
12:14 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Bahraich: Criticising Mulayam Singh Yadav for his reported statement promising government jobs to rape victims, BJP leader Uma Bharti on Monday said the Samajwadi Party president lacked understanding of social concerns. Talking to reporters, the former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister favoured capital punishment for rape convicts. "If the BJP is voted to power, it will make provision of capital punishment for rapists to prevent recurrence of such incidents," she said....
01:38 AM, Jan 31, 2012
Balrampur: Attacking the Samajwadi Party, BJP leader Uma Bharti said on Sunday that fatwas on religious lines for votes was dangerous for country's politics. Addressing an election rally in Balrampur, she alleged sensing their imminent defeat in the UP Assembly election, the SP and the Congress had resorted to communal politics. The Congress was talking about religion-based quota while the SP was getting fatwas issued from Muslim religious leaders, Bharti...
10:46 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Mahoba: BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Uma Bharti owns assets worth over Rs 80 lakh, including cash, gold and silver jewellery. According to affidavit filed by Bharti, who filed her nomination for Charkhari seat in this district, has Rs 7 lakh cash deposited in different banks, besides a policy of Rs 1.5 lakh. The BJP leader, who has taken formal education just up to 5th standard, owns...
08:02 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Lucknow: Days after Uma Bharti described herself as his 'heiress', former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Kalyan Singh on Saturday said he will campaign against the BJP leader and claimed that she does not stand a chance of winning from Charkhari assembly constituency. "Uma Bharti is in the race for third or fourth spot in Charkhari... It is a certainty that she will not win," Singh, convenor of the newly-formed Jan...
11:48 AM, Jan 28, 2012
Lucknow: Days after Uma Bharti described herself as his "heiress", former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Kalyan Singh on Friday said he will campaign against the BJP leader and claimed that she does not stand a chance of winning from Charkhari Assembly constituency. "Uma Bharti is in the race for third or fourth spot in Charkhari... It is a certainty that she will not win," Singh, convenor of the newly-formed Jan...
08:59 PM, Jan 27, 2012
Lucknow: Accusing the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) of selling off Uttar Pradesh's land to private parties, Janta Dal (United) President Sharad Yadav on Friday asked the CBI to make public the names of people involved in various scams. "Mayawati government has reduced the state's land by nine per cent by selling it to private operators. The state was ruled by JPs and Chaddas in the past four years in...
06:34 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: There was more action in the battle for Uttar Pradesh as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its manifesto and the Congress released its 'Vision Document 2020' on Thursday. While the BJP's manifesto promises freebies including a cow for every BPL family in the state, the Congress's vision document promises 20 lakh jobs and a new land acquisition law. The BJP, playing its Hindutva card, announced that it...
05:40 PM, Jan 27, 2012
New Delhi: BJP's election manifesto for Uttar Pradesh, with focus on education, health, employment and law and order will be released on Friday. "The manifesto will also give due consideration to problems of farmers, dalits, backwards, poor and unemployed youths," BJP spokesman Vijay Bahadur Pathak said. The party, which has already released its vision document, for all round development of the state will release its manifesto in presence of senior...
07:59 AM, Jan 27, 2012
Mahoba (UP): Continuing her tirade against Rahul Gandhi, BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday accused him of making mockery of the poor in Bundelkhand region and reminded him that she had defeated his "guru" Digvijay Singh in Madhya Pradesh. "Rahul Gandhi should now stop making mockery of poverty, starvation and poor state of affairs of Bundelkhand region," said Bharti, who was visiting Bundelkhand for the first time after her candidature...
11:47 PM, Jan 25, 2012
It was nice to see a confident and animated Uma Bharti on TV, again. There was a time when Uma ruled the roost, but soon ...
03:50 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Lucknow: BJP Vice-President Kalraj Mishra, who is one of the front-runners for the chief ministership of Uttar Pradesh if some miraculous results give his party the mandate, has ruled out Uma Bharti occupying the post in the state. Though Mishra is all-praise for Bharti, he does not agree that she is a prospective chief ministerial candidate of BJP if the party comes to power. BJP President Nitin Gadkari has hinted...
01:00 PM, Jan 24, 2012
New Delhi: Ruling out himself as his party's prime ministerial candidate, BJP president Nitin Gadkari on Sunday favoured Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi for the top job and promised to back his candidature as party chief. "I will never be a candidate for PM nor will I topple anybody. Modi has good potential to be BJP president and PM," Gadkari said. Gadkari, whose term as BJP president comes to an...
01:02 PM, Jan 23, 2012
New Delhi: Salman Rushdie's absence at the Jaipur Literature Festival has turned into a full-blown political battle, with the BJP alleging that the entire controversy has been created keeping UP election in mind, while All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen leader and Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi has demanded that the readers of 'The Satanic Verses' should be arrested. "The Salman Rushdie controversy is being made an issue because of the UP elections....
12:15 AM, Jan 22, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) star campaigner Uma Bharti on Saturday hit out at Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and said that he should apologise for his comments at the Bundelkhand rally. She also said that the BJP will not counter or respond to the 'derogatory language' of the Congress. "I have asked my party not to respond to the derogatory language used by Congress leaders for me. Rahul...
12:53 PM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Uma Bharti will campaign in Hardoi in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Party President Nitin Gadkari will be flag off her rath yatra. The BJP decided to field Uma from Bundelkhand to counter the Kalyan Singh factor. Earlier on Friday, Uma Bharti asserted that she was not a chief ministerial candidate of the BJP in the state. ...
08:25 AM, Jan 21, 2012
New Delhi: In an interview with IBN 18 IBN18 Editor-in-Chief Rajdeep Sardesai, BJP leader Uma Bharti flayed the Congress and the BSP, saying that she would "make it sure" that the two parties "bite the dust" in Uttar Pradesh and the BJP returned to power in the state. Speaking to Sardesai, she added that she was not the BJP's chief ministerial candidate for Uttar Pradesh, but was more like a...
07:49 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) star campaigner Uma Bharti on Friday clarified that she was not the party's chief ministerial candidate in Uttar Pradesh while adding that she was working for the poor and had come to the state as the Ganga flows through it. "I am in UP to ensure BJP's performance. My heart belongs to the Ganga, the poor and the cow, wherever they are," Uma Bharti...
01:58 PM, Jan 20, 2012
Allahabad: The Congress on Thursday said BJP leader Uma Bharti's barbs against Rahul Gandhi were "not in good taste" and that the people of Uttar Pradesh would never accept an "imported leader". "The remarks of Uma Bharti against Congress general secretary were not in good taste. She has not learnt to behave herself despite having occupied high positions in the past," UP Congress president Rita Bahuguna Joshi said. Uma had...
01:15 AM, Jan 20, 2012
