The Election Commission sought a report after Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath called the Indian Army “Modiji ki Sena” at an election rally. The poll panel has asked for a factual report from the Ghaziabad district election office and asked it to submit it by Tuesday.
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Akhilesh Yadav’s Samajwadi Party confirmed the end of its alliance with the Nishad Party in the eastern UP over the dispute over Gorakhpur Lok Sabha seat, where Nishad Party’s Praveen Nishad pulled off a sensation victory with the help of SP and Mayawati’s BSP in the 2018 bypoll.
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While expressing disappointment that his recommendations in appointment of state backward castes panel members have been “ignored”, UP cabinet minister Om Prakash Rajbhar said he would relinquish the charge of the backward class welfare department.
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Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was stopped from boarding a special flight to Allahabad at Amausi airport by Lucknow district administration. This triggered a political controversy and statewide protests by his party workers.
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Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand was hit by a hooch tragedy, on Saturday, which has claimed nearly 100 lives. According to the latest figures, on Sunday, at least 97 people have died after consuming spurious liquor.
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The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Uttar Pradesh government, on Monday, on a PIL seeking a court-monitored CBI or SIT probe into recent police encounter killings in the state and said that killings in Uttar Pradesh require “serious consideration”.
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A group of retired civil servants has demanded the resignation of Yogi Adityanath because he directed the state police to focus on the alleged cow slaughter that triggered the violence in Bulandshahr earlier this month, rather than the perpetrators of the violence.
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One of the petitioners who moved the Supreme Court challenging a verdict by Allahabad high court that accepted the Uttar Pradesh government’s decision refuse sanction to prosecute Yogi Adityanath in a 2007 hate-speech case, was arrested on charges of gang rape.
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The Uttar Pradesh government, on Thursday, ordered the release of Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’, who was sent to jail, in June 2017, on charges under the National Security Act following the May 2017 Saharanpur inter-caste violence.
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The Supreme Court directed the chief judicial magistrate of Gorakhpur to pass an appropriate order on a case filed against Yogi Adityanath, UP chief minister, for allegedly delivering a hate speech in 2007, which had led to tension in the city.
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