Kanpur, February 21: Blaming Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Congress Tuesday said it would approach the high court for quashing a police complaint against party leader Rahul Gandhi for allegedly violating rules during a roadshow here. Congress leader Digvijay Singh alleged: "The action was taken on the direction of Mayawati as ...

New Delhi, February 20: The Congress party Monday said it would reply to the Election Commission on Union Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma's sub-quota comment within the stipulated time, adding that there was no intent to disrespect the commission. Talking to reporters after meeting Verma, party leader and spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi ...

Lucknow, February 19: Voting across 56 constituencies, including Lucknow, in the fourth phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections Sunday picked up pace after a slow start to record a 57 percent turnout, officials said. Polling was peaceful barring stray incidents. The turnout was a marked improvement over the 2007 state elections ...

New Delhi, February 19: Protesting against the lack of development, voters at the Patna polling station in Tindwari assembly constituency of Uttar Pradesh's Banda district boycotted the assembly polls Sunday. Election Commission sources said this is the first such incident during the four phases of the seven-phase state Assembly polls, which started ...

Firozabad (Uttar Pradesh), February 19: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati Saturday said here that "gunda and mafia raj" would return to the state if the Mulayam Singh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party came to power in the assembly polls. Addressing a rally at the CL College ground, Mayawati said ...

Farrukhabad, February 19: Louis Khursheed, Congress leader and wife of union Law Minister Salman Khursheed, had a narrow escape Sunday evening as a group of people pelted stones at a polling booth here, from where she is contesting the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, for allegedly promoting bogus voting. The protesters charged her ...

New Delhi, February 19: Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader L.K. Advani Sunday accused the Congress of "deliberately communalising" the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, a day after the poll panel served notice on Steel Minister Beni Prasad Verma for promising a sub-quota for Muslims. "Never before have the Congress party or its leaders communalised ...

Aligarh, February 19: Scams and looters have denied people in Uttar Pradesh of gains from central government funds for development, Congress chief Sonia Gandhi said while attacking the Mayawati government here Sunday, as voting took place in 56 constituencies in the fourth phase of assembly elections. In her 20-minute-long speech at the ...

Lucknow, February 17: "I was mesmerised by the change," says an excited Sifat Khan, a 21-year-old who grew up in Australia and visited poll-bound Lucknow this winter after four years. She was thrilled to find recreation spots, malls, well-lit roads and a changing lifestyle - not to mention the renovated commercial ...

New Delhi, February 17: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday approached the Election Commission (EC) seeking stringent action against Congress leader Beni Prasad Verma for promising sub-quota for Muslims if his party was voted to power in Uttar Pradesh. The BJP submitted a memorandum to the poll panel, alleging Verma violated the ...