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Topic: UP assembly

‘Pleased that members are raising relevant issues’—UP assembly speaker on 24-hr Vision 2047 debate

Speaker Satish Mahana's remarks come after a 24-hr-long session on the document, which promises that UP would become 'the most developed state' in the country by 2047.

Why Modi-Shah can’t do to Yogi in 2024 what Vajpayee did to Kalyan Singh in 1999

The RSS loved both poster boys of Hindutva—Kalyan Singh & Yogi Adityanath. Singh faced rebellion from within the BJP after 1999 polls. Yogi is also under siege from within after 2024 polls.

What is Uttar Pradesh’s Nazul Property Bill and why BJP lawmakers are opposing it

Politicians, especially from Prayagraj region, have hit out at Yogi govt for the bill which empowers state to reclaim Nazul govt properties leased out to pvt individuals & entities.

SP MLA Abdullah Azam Khan disqualified from UP Assembly over 2008 case

Samajwadi Party veteran Azam Khan's son was earlier disqualified in 2020 after the Allahabad High Court set aside his election to the Assembly.

Why Rampur turned against Azam Khan & voted BJP — ‘corruption, instigation, economic decline’

This month's bypoll, necessitated by Khan's conviction in hate speech case, saw a Hindu candidate, BJP's Akash Saxena, win in the Muslim-majority constituency for the first time.

‘Unconstitutional’ — 3 BJP MPs skip UP speaker’s meeting, lay bare in-fighting in state unit

Kanpur MP Satyadev Pachauri, Akbarpur MP Devendra Singh Bhole & Misrikh MP Ashok Singh Rawat wrote to CM Adityanath claiming review meeting by Satish Mahana to be 'against parliamentary traditions'.

Samajwadi Party rebel MLA Nitin Agrawal elected UP assembly deputy speaker

BJP-backed candidate Nitin Agrawal defeated Narendra Verma, the official candidate of Samjawadi Party, by 244 votes. The opposition BSP and Congress MLAs had boycotted the election.

SP’s Nitin Agarwal files nomination for UP assembly deputy speaker post in BJP leaders’ presence

Uttar Pradesh will get its first Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly after a gap of over 14 years.

UP speaker says ‘quoted out of context’ as his Mahatma Gandhi-Rakhi Sawant remark sparks row

At a BJP event Saturday, speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit said if people could become great just by shedding clothes, Rakhi Sawant would have been a taller personality than Gandhi.

How Mayawati, Priyanka or Akhilesh could defeat Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh in 2022

The challenge before the three opposition leaders in UP is to convert a four-cornered contest into a two-cornered one.

On Camera

Anand Gandhi is taking his biggest moonshot from Goa— vaanars, rakshasis, manushyas

Ship of Theseus director Anand Gandhi moved to Goa to synthesise big ideas and build an Indian sci-fi mythiverse with MAYA. ‘In a way, the job title in the East for this enterprise is the Buddha.’

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.