Unofficial WhatsApp messages with enormous reach across UP don’t focus on facts, only seek to accuse the other. But they can impact ‘swing’ voters yet to make up their minds.
On Friday, PM Narendra Modi held a massive roadshow in his constituency amid cheering crowds showering rose petals. He is also scheduled to address a rally Saturday.
Before last phase of UP polls, Keshav Prasad Maurya talks about BJP’s chances, its focus on development and welfare of all, but says slogans like 'Jai Shri Ram' will continue.
Raja Bhaiya, currently locked in war of words with SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, is fighting UP assembly polls from Kunda for seventh time. He has served as minister in both BJP & SP govts.
In a TV interview last week, Shah said 'it is not true Mayawati’s relevance is over' — countering many political pundits who have dismissed her BSP as a force in UP.
Mau constituency, which goes to vote on 7 March, has been gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari’s stronghold since 1996. He has won the seat five consecutive times.
RSS campaign documents — leaflets, posters, and speeches — reveal three main talking points of BJP in 2022 polls. Fourth 'M' might be muscularity as Article 370 is a recurring theme too.
RSS has always been active during elections. Difference between its campaign now and in 2012 and 2017 is more about the method of campaigning and functioning of cadres.
One head teacher’s initiative in a govt upper primary school in Shravasti has inspired district administration to launch project to set up more smart schools.
The last time this matter flared up was when Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, in a very similar directive in April, called for the relocation of stray dogs in the capital.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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