BJP to launch campaign against Uttar Pradesh government

October 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav will on Sunday launch the campaign for his daughter-in-law for the by-election to the Ferozabad Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh, where she has been pitted against Bollywood veteran Raj Babbar of the Congress. Netaji (Mulayam Singh Yadav) will reach Ferozabad on Oct 4 to start the campaign for the by-poll, Rajya Sabha MP of Samajwadi Party Kamal Akhter told IANS.

September 4th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The weatherman's prediction of heavy rains in Uttar Pradesh for three days beginning Friday has raised hopes among farmers that they can still grow something this kharif season. India's most populous state has been suffering a paucity of rainfall this monsoon, with the authorities declaring 58 of the 71 districts drought-hit.

July 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Three days after he met the prime minister to seek a special package for the Bundelkhand region, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi Friday said the party would do everything for the welfare and development of the region that he says is steeped in poverty. "We have submitted a memorandum to the prime minister (on Bundelkhand).

June 19th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati clarified that protest demonstrations her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) had organised across Uttar Pradesh Friday were not connected with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's birthday. We selected June 19 to launch an awareness campaign about the casteist approach of opposition parties and to attack the central government for its anti-Dalit policies but that had nothing to do with Rahul Gandhis birthday, which I am told also falls today," she told a rally here.

June 14th, 2009 NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW - Celebrating its gains in the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress in Uttar Pradesh will mark party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's birthday June 19 with community feasts, mainly in Dalit-dominated areas. June 19 will be celebrated as Samrasta Diwas (Harmony Day) in Uttar Pradesh.

April 7th, 2009 LUCKNOW - The Election Commission Tuesday ordered the Uttar pradesh government to remove Principal Home Secretary Kunwar Fateh Bahadur ahead of the Lok Sabha elections. According to an official spokesman, the commission has sought a panel of three names to finalise the next incumbent.

April 2nd, 2009 LUCKNOW - Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, who is also the party's Lok Sabha candidate for the Amethi seat in Uttar Pradesh, will launch his campaign in the state from Friday, party officials said Thursday. 'Rahul will tomorrow (Friday) address public meetings in Maharajganj, Kushinagar and Chandauli districts,' Congress spokesperson Akhilesh Pratap Singh told reporters here.

March 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will launch her party's election campaign from Kerala and will hold a series of public rallies till May 11. 'My campaign starts from tomorrow (Saturday) and I will hold a series of public meetings in all corners of the country till May 11 without missing a single day,' Mayawati told reporters here.

March 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati released a list of candidates for 80 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh. She also announced that the BSP's nationwide campaign would start from Saturday.

March 17th, 2009 LUCKNOW - With three private helicopters at her disposal, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati will hit the campaign trail Sunday to rally voters across the country for her Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) that plans to contest at least 400 Lok Sabha seats in the coming election. Seen by her BSP as the only crowd puller, who does not need the additional props of film stars or celebrities, Mayawati will set herself a punishing pace as she spins across the country for the five-phase elections that begin April 16 and go on till May 13.

March 6th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Each of the 128,112 polling stations in Uttar Pradesh for the Lok Sabha elections will have at least one telecommunication facility to ensure prompt and direct connectivity with voting officials, India's poll panel chief here said Thursday. 'We have taken some special measures to curb cross-border movement of people, which in the past has been the cause of trouble during polling in areas along inter-state borders,' Chief Election Commissioner N.

February 25th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Gearing up for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Tuesday said that it has finalised its pre-poll alliance with the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), a party with some influence in western Uttar Pradesh. 'The alliance with the RLD has been finalised.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will Tuesday launch its Lok Sabha election campaign from Rampur constituency in Muslim-dominated western Uttar Pradesh with terrorism as the key issue, party vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said Monday. 'Rampur had been chosen for two reasons.

February 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will Tuesday launch its Lok Sabha campaign from Rampur in Uttar Pradesh where its vice-president Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi will be the candidate. Naqvi said Rampur had been chosen because it had a large number of Muslims and 'starting the election campaign from there would dilute the notion that the BJP is anti-Muslim'.

January 12th, 2009 LUCKNOW - Twenty members of an inter-state gang, involved in manufacturing and supplying spurious country-made liquor, have been arrested in Uttar Pradesh, police said Tuesday. The men were arrested from the Narayanpur village of Ballia district, about 300 km from here, Monday late night.