Assembly Elections 2022 Updates: Election Commission issues notice to Samajwadi Party over violation of Covid norms

In an interview to a media house, the CM said if one were to look at the projects which SP claims to have done, like the Gomti River Front project, all the work done under the previous government was embroiled in corruption. “As far as the Purvanchal Expressway is concerned, only 20% of the work had been done. We bought 96% of the land in a year and then laid the foundation stone. Five expressways are under construction at present,” he said.

With Dharam Singh Saini becoming the third UP minister after Swami Prasad Maurya and Dara Singh Chauhan to quit the Yogi Adityanath cabinet on Thursday, the BJP brass watched the Opposition replicating its strategy of squeezing its rival’s strength at the eleventh hour to gain much-needed electoral advantage.

While the question whether Congress general secretary and UP in-charge Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will contest the state assembly elections remains unanswered, the grand old party released its first list of 125 candidates on Thursday.

Putting their bet on the belief that farmers’ agitation in Western UP has narrowed down the gap between the Jats and Muslims created by 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots, the Samajwadi Party and RLD kept the focus on Jats and Muslims in the first list of 29 candidates — 10 SP and 19 of RLD — that the two parties jointly released on Thursday.