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  • Sought divine blessings in Ayodhya to oust BJP govt in Uttar Pradesh, says Manish Sisodia

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Ahead of the 2022 UP assembly polls, the temple town of Ayodhya has become an axis of heightened political activity in the state. On Monday, Aam Aadmi Party leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and party’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh joined the galaxy of leaders to seek blessings of Ram Lalla.

    After completing the darshan, Sisodia said he prayed to Lord Ram for his blessings to replace the incumbent BJP dispensation with the AAP government in the poll-bound state. Sisodia also recited Hanuman Chalisa in Hanumangarhi. “UP can also be developed on the lines of Delhi in terms of education, health, electricity, water and employment.

    With the grace of Lord Shri Ram, AAP under the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is redefining politics with honesty and development.Whatever AAP is able to do in Delhi is because of the blessings of Shri Ram and saints,” tweeted Sisodia.

    “Even today, ‘Ram Raj’ is considered to be the highest inspiration for clean governance and administration. I request at the feet of Lord Ram that there should always be the grace to keep our thoughts pure,” he told mediapersons.

  • Congress releases booklet titled ‘Kisne Bigada Uttar Pradesh’ to sensitise workers in UP

    By Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: Kicking up a political row of sorts, UP Congress has released a booklet to sensitise its cadre. However, the 24-page booklet goes on to target the Congress rivals including BJP, SP and the BSP alike calling them partners in crime for over three decades.

    The motive of releasing the booklet is to train the Congress workers who have been named “Vijay Sena” (army for victory) in the run-up to the Uttar Pradesh assembly election due early next year.

    While the BJP and SP chose to ignore the 24-page booklet titled “Kisne Bigada Uttar Pradesh” (who contorted Uttar Pradesh), BSP chief Mayawati reacted to it sharply advising Congress to focus on its shortcomings which depleted its base not only in UP but across the nation.

    However, an SP MLC said that his party did not mind what Congress said. SP’s fight was with the BJP only.

    Carrying the caricatures of UP CM Yogi Adityanath, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP president Mayawati on the front cover, the booklet calls the BJP a Bharatiya Jumlebaaz Party and provides a list of its alleged unfulfilled promises on the back.

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    When confronted, BJP spokesman Rakesh Tripathi said that the grand old party was rejected by the people of the state in successive Lok Sabha and assembly elections. He claimed that AICC general secretary and the party’s UP in-charge  Priyanka Gandhi used to visit UP as a tourist levelling fake allegations on rivals.

     In the booklet, the party has claimed that Uttar Pradesh is at the bottom in terms of income of farmers, employment, education and health. It adds that the state tops in malnutrition, crime against women and girl child, infant mortality rate and maternal mortality following corruption and successive misrule of BJP, BSP and SP governments during the last 32 years.

    The party is imparting training, as claimed in the booklet, to two lakh workers of “Vijay Sena” at 700 “Prashikshan se Parakram” (training for valour) camps ending on September 7, 2021.

    According to UPCC chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, Congress’s Vijay Sena will go from door to door to tell people how the 32-year rule has led to UP’s decline.

    The booklet has nine chapters — seven on the BJP and one each on the SP and the BSP. The SP has been attacked for dynastic politics and corruption, along with accusations of favours to a particular caste (without directly naming Yadavs). The SP has been attacked for dynastic politics and corruption, along with accusations of favours to a particular caste (without directly naming Yadavs).

    Mayawati has been addressed as Daulat Ki Beti (daughter of wealth and not of a Dalit). The chapter on the BSP’s “misrule” alleges that Mayawati is the only leader who sells her party’s tickets for crores. Listing scams during BSP rule, the booklet says Mayawati is fond of wearing garlands of currency notes.

  • Samajwadi Party allies warm up to 2022 UP assembly polls with ‘yatras’

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: Warming up to the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, two political allies of the Samajwadi Party on Monday launched two separate poll campaign tours in the state.

    While Janvadi Party (Socialist) kicked off its ‘Jan Kranti Yatra’ from Ballia on Monday, the Mahan Dal launched its ‘Janaakrosh Yatra’ from Bilaspur in Pilibhit, officials of the two parties said.

    Both political campaign tours were flagged off by the state’s senior SP leaders, the Janvadi party’s one by Leader of Opposition Ram Govind Chaudhary in the UP assembly and the Mahan Dal’s one by SP’s UP unit president Naresh Uttam Patel.

    The two tours will culminate respectively in Ayodhya and Etawah on August 31 and 27.

    The Janvadi Party (Socialist) launched its campaign with the “BJP Hatao-Pradesh Bachao” motto, with Chaudhary along with the party’s founder Sanjay Singh Chauhan.

    While flagging off his party’s ‘Jan Kranti Yatra’, Chauhan said that the tour, which would cover Mau, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Bhadohi, Prayagraj, Azamgarh and Ambedkar Nagar on its route, is aimed at making people aware of the BJP governments’ anti-people policies in both the state and the Centre.

    He said the objective of the yatra is to install the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party government in Uttar Pradesh after the next assembly elections.

    Drawing the political significance of August for starting the poll campaign tours, Chaudhary said it was in the same month that Mahatma Gandhi had given the Quit India call to the British and it was in this month that Ballia had freed itself from them.

    Attacking the Yogi Adityanath government, Chaudhary accused it of being “neck-deep in corruption”.

    “They want to misguide people and divide society. The Adityanath government has nothing to do with development and public welfare. Owing to his government’s wrong policies, society is facing multi-faceted problems, ranging from the farmers’ agitation to inflation, unemployment, crime against women and fake encounters,” Chaudhary said.

    While flagging off the Mahan Dal’s ‘Janaakrosh Yatra’, which will cover Bareilly, Badaun, Kasganj, Etah and Mainpuri before culminating in Etawah, Patel accused both the Union and the state governments of having failed on all fronts.

    The Mahan Dal president Keshav Dev Maurya said farmers, youths and middle-income group people are feeling harassed by the Yogi government.

    “The main aim of the ‘Janaakrosh Rally’ is to convey the anger of the public to the government,” he added.

  • UP’s medical device park worth Rs 5,250 crore to come up in Noida, to generate 20,000 jobs

    Express News Service

    LUCKNOW: With 2022 UP Assembly polls inching close, the Yogi Adityanath government is speeding up various schemes and development works to make them see the light of the day as soon as possible.

    With Yamuna Expressway Industrial Development Authority (YEIDA) ready with the plan for the proposed Film City in Gautam Buddh Nagar and its chairman expected to present it to the Chief Minister soon, another project on the government’s list is UP’s first medical device park for which 350-acre land has been identified also by the YEIDA.

    The park is likely to draw an investment of Rs 5,250 crore and is expected to go a long way in fulfilling the Yogi government’s job promise as it will provide employment to over 20,000 people after getting functional. The park is touted to be UP’s first and north India’s biggest such entity.

    According to a state government spokesman, the medical device park, which will have an incubation centre on a five-acre land, will prove to be a boon for startups.

    He claimed that YEIDA is roping in IIT-Kanpur for setting up the incubation centre of the park and an MoU has already been signed.

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    Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had written a letter to the Centre to request such a park be sanctioned either in Noida or Lucknow. In the letter, the CM had reportedly said that a medical park in Noida or Lucknow would be feasible in every way.

    However, he had pitched for Noida, saying that the upcoming Jewar International Airport would give direct connectivity to the medical device park.

    The CM requested the Centre to either sanction bulk drugs or medical device parks to UP. However, the reply from the central government was still awaited, sources said.

    “YEIDA has allocated 350-acre land in Sector 28, Gautam Budh Nagar (Noida). The medical device park will come up in two phases,” an official said.

    Meanwhile, according to MSME minister Sidharth Nath Singh denied that the proposed park was an election stunt. He claimed that out of the MoUs worth Rs 4.25 lakh crore already signed during the Investor Summit in February 2018, projects worth around Rs 2 lakh crore were already on the ground.