UP Assembly Polls 2022: Samajwadi Party, Congress Leaders Join BJP

Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi said, “I thank Shri Rahul Gandhi Ji for accepting the demand of Punjabis. I assure our High Command that we will stand united and work for the betterment of Punjab. I will be the first one to campaign for the announced candidate.”

Congress Shekhupura assembly candidate Farha Naeem on Thursday resigned from the party and returned her ticket accusing district president of making indecent comments against women. Addressing a press conference here, Naeem made allegations against character of party district president Onkar Singh and announced her resignation. READ MORE

Delhi Chief Minister and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal slammed Congress on Thursday and said, “Rahul Gandhi Ji was too late to arrive in Punjab. He cannot show his face to the people because he failed in fulfilling the promises he made to the people of Punjab 5 years ago.”

As the voting for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections inch closer, the political battle has intensified in the state. Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) chief Om Prakash Rajbhar has accused the BJP of “harbouring” the likes of Ajay Mishra Teni, accused of killing four farmers during the Lakhimpur Kheri violence. READ MORE

There is no fight between us. Announce chief minister face for Punjab polls, we (Punjab Congress) will stand united: Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi said during a gathering where Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was also present.

With the declaration of its third list of 56 candidates on Thursday, Samajwadi Party has so far declared 254 candidates for the 403 seats Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. The list names BSP turncoats Ram Achal Rajbhar and Lalji Verma from Akbarpur and Katehari seats respectively of Ambedkar Nagar, Vinay Tiwari from Chillupar and Leader of opposition Ram Govind Chowdhury from his Bansdeeh seat of Ballia district. READ MORE

Union Home Minister Amit Shah holds door-to-door campaign in Dadri, Gautam Buddha Nagar in support of BJP candidate for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

Punjab Congress leader Jagmohan Singh Kang requested party chief Sonia Gandhi to allot election ticket from Assembly constituency of Kharar-52 to his son Yadavindra Singh Kang. “Chief Minister Channi is opposing us out of professional jealousy” he said, warning of taking a “drastic step.”

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visits Jallianwala Bagh in Amritsar, Punjab.

Former Punjab MLA and Congress leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, who was arrested in connection with a money laundering case, was granted regular bail by Punjab & Haryana High Court today.

A group of people, wearing black ribbons, stages demonstration during Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Bhagwan Valmiki Tirath Sthal in Amritsar.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi along with party candidates for the Punjab assembly polls paid obeisance at the Golden Temple here on Thursday. In a tweet in Hindi, Gandhi said he along with the Congress candidates prayed for the future of Punjab at Harmandir Sahib. After offering prayers at the sanctum sanctorum of the Golden Temple, Gandhi partook ‘langar’ along with the party candidates. Gandhi was flanked by Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and party’s state unit chief Navjot Singh Sidhu. READ MORE

Though they stand up for two different ideologies, it’s one common objective that these two candidates share; “avenging” their father’s election defeat. Congress’s Anupama Rawat, the daughter of former chief minister Harish Rawat, is contesting from Haridwar (rural), and BJP’s Ritu Khanduri, whose father BC Khanduri was a sitting CM who lost to the Congress in 2012, is fighting from Kotdwar. READ MORE

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami filed his nominations on Thursday from the Khatima Assembly seat for the February 14 polls. Dhami offered prayers at a local temple and held a door-to-door campaign in Khatima before filing his nominations.

Union Minister Amit Shah, who is in Mathura for campaigning, said that there is no place for ‘jatiwad’ and ‘parivarwaad’ in politics.

“Once again I’ve filed nomination from Sanquelim constituency. BJP will win the constituency with a big margin and I will be elected from here again. The workers and I are confident. We are coming back to power in Goa in 2022 with 22 plus seats,” said Goa CM Pramod Sawant.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi visited the Golden Temple here ahead of his virtually rally in Jalandhar on Thursday. Gandhi will partake ‘langar’ along with party candidates at the Golden Temple and also visit Durgaina Temple and the Bhagwan Valmiki Tirath Sthal here.

Samajwadi Party leader Ghulam Mohammed on Thursday said that “there is no exodus” of Hindus from Kairana and that the BJP was “creating issues.” Union Minister Amit Shah, during his door-to-door campaign in western Uttar Pradesh, on January 22 visited the “affected families” who have returned after chief minister Yogi Adityanath came to power. READ MORE

“BJP thinks that only they have history’s knowledge. Everyone’s sitting down to write new history, these historians are here to change history. We know about Tipu Sultan, don’t need to learn from BJP. If they say it has been named after Tipu and that they’ll do this & that then they should let it be, saying all this doesn’t suit them. State Govt is capable of making decisions. Don’t write new history. You can continue trying to change history in Delhi but you won’t succeed, said Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Raut on the row over naming a sports complex after Tipu Sultan