Polling began on Saturday for 57 seats in eight states/UT in the seventh and final phase of India’s mammoth electoral exercise. The 57 seats, including 13 reserved for SCs and three for STs, are in Uttar Pradesh and Punjab (13 each), West Bengal (9), Bihar (8), Odisha (6), Himachal Pradesh (4), Jharkhand (3), and Chandigarh (1). Over 10.06 crore voters – 5.24 crore males, 4.82 crore females, and 3,574 belonging to the third gender – are eligible to head to 1.09 lakh polling stations to choose their preferred candidates from the 908 nominees in the fray. The BJP National President JP Nadda cast his vote at a polling booth in Himachal Pradesh’s Bilaspur. AAP MP Raghav Chadha cast his vote at a polling station in Punjab’s Lakhnaur, and UP CM Yogi Adityanath cast his vote at a polling booth in Gorakhnath, Gorakhpur.
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PM Modi gave India new identity: Adityanath
India has written a brand-new success story on every front. The world's outlook towards India and Uttar Pradesh has changed under the leadership of PM Modi, Adityanath said. VARANASI: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave India a new identity and the country has written success stories on every front in the past nine years.
In his welcome address at Wajidpur where the prime minister laid the foundation stones of 29 projects, Adityanath said despite his responsibilities on the international front, Modi could not resist visiting Varanasi because the holy city and its people are in his heart.
“Over the past nine years, the prime minister has worked to give the country a new identity. Today, he has come to his Kashi to celebrate the success of these nine years,” the chief minister said.
“Kashi Vishwanath Dham is captivating for the entire world. The temples and ghats are being decorated…The Shanghai Cooperation Organization has also recognized Kashi as the cultural capital of the world in 2022-23,” Adityanath said.
India has written a brand-new success story on every front. The world’s outlook towards India and Uttar Pradesh has changed under the leadership of PM Modi, he said.
Union Ministers Mahendra Nath Pandey and SP Singh Baghel, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief ministers Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brijesh Pathak, the state’s Minister of Urban Development and Energy A K Sharma, state ministers Ravindra Jaiswal, Dayashankar Mishra Dayalu, were among those present at the event.
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Yogi Adityanath hits out at Akhilesh Yadav for ‘comparing’ Jinnah with Sardar Patel
By PTI
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday attacked Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav for “comparing” Muhammad Ali Jinnah with Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, saying Talibani mentality believed in breaking the society.
Yadav on Sunday spoke of Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Jawaharlal Nehru and Jinnah in the same breath as leaders who fought for India’s independence, prompting a criticism from the BJP.
“I was listening to Akhilesh ji’s statement yesterday. He was comparing Jinnah, who divided the country, with Sardar Patel, who brought the nation together. This is a shameful statement,” Adityanath said in a programme in Moradabad.
He said “Talibani mentality” believes in breaking the society.
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“Sometimes it is in the name of caste….When they are not succeeding, they are raising fingers at ‘mahapurush’ (great personalities) and insulting the entire society,” he said.
The chief minister said this cannot be accepted and everyone should condemn it.
“Yadav should regret his statement as insulting Sardar Patel will not be accepted,” he added.
“Sardar Patel is the basis of India’s unity and integrity, and also is the nation’s architect,” he said, adding that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi the belief of ‘ek Bharat, shresth Bharat’ is being taken forward.
The credit of keeping free India ‘undivided’ goes to Sardar Patel, Adityanath said.
The divisive mentality of glorifying Jinnah by comparing him with Sardar Patel is back in light, the chief minister said.
“I think the people of the country, especially those from Uttar Pradesh, will never accept this divisive mentality,” he added.
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The BSP hit out at Yadav on Monday for speaking of the four leaders in the same breath and alleged that there is a “collusion” between the SP and the BJP.
In a tweet in Hindi, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati alleged that Yadav’s remarks on Jinnah and the BJP’s response to it are part of a well-thought-out strategy of the two parties to vitiate the atmosphere on Hindu-Muslim lines ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi also criticised Yadav’s remarks, saying that Muslims who stayed in india had rejected Jinnah’s two-nation theory and the SP leader should instead talk about the present.
The SP president, in his address at an event in Hardoi on Sunday, had lavished praise on Patel on his 146th birth anniversary but raised eyebrows at one point when he appeared to equate the four leaders, including Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan.
The SP leader had said, “Sardar Patel understood the ground and he made decisions accordingly. Hence, he is also known as Iron Man.”
“Sardar Patel, Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and (Muhammad Ali) Jinnah studied in the same institute and became barristers. They helped (India) get freedom and never backed away from any struggle,” Yadav had said.
He had also referred to the ban imposed on the RSS by Patel, the then home minister, following Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination in 1948, saying only he could do it.
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More women empowerment programs to be launched in UP: Yogi Adityanath
By ANI
GORAKHPUR: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that women empowerment programs will be held across the state along with the launch of more safety measures for females.At a program launch during his two-day visit to the city, Adityanath said, “This International Women’s Day, women empowerment programs will be held across the state besides the launch of more women safety measures. Value of ‘Gaon ki beti sabki beti, Gaon ki behen sabki behen,’ should be inculcated.”
He further mentioned that the Rajghat cremation ground has been renovated and many new facilities have been made available there.
“Rajghat (cremation ground) has been renovated, unlike how it was used to be, it is clean and has many facilities. We have also requested the Centre to approve a six-lane path to Gorakhpur,” Adityanath said.
“Soon, there will be a ‘Plastic Park’ too, which will employ over 25,000 youths,” he added.
Speaking about Gorakhpur tourism, the UP Chief Minister said, “There are several opportunities in the area of tourism as people from across the world visit Gorakhpur. Connecting Nepal and Bihar, Gorakhpur also becomes the central point of ‘Bodh Tourism’.”
Earlier in the day, he held the ‘Janata Darbar’ at the Gorakhnath Temple, where he heard the problems of people and also assured them of solutions.
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UP govt orders probe by EOW into Ghaziabad roof collapse incident
By PTI
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday ordered a probe by the SIT of Economic Offences Wing (EOW) into the Muradnagar roof collapse incident in which 24 people died.The SIT will probe the entire incident, including the construction work, Additional Chief Secretary (Information) Navneet Sehgal said, adding that a detailed report has also been sought from the ADG.
“The chief minister has taken a serious note of the Muradnagar incident and decided to order a probe by the SIT of EOW,” Sehgal said.
Twenty-four people, most of them attending a funeral, were killed and 17 others injured when the roof of a shelter at the cremation ground in Muradnagar collapsed on Sunday.
Adityanath had directed that the National Security Act be slapped against the accused persons and recovery of loss of public money and the amount of government compensation paid to the bereaved families from the erring engineer and contractor.
He also announced that a financial assistance of Rs 10 lakh be provided to each of the kin of the deceased and homeless affected families be provided a house.
The contractor wanted in connection with the incident was arrested from a village near the border of Meerut and Muzaffarnagar districts.
Contractor Ajay Tyagi, who went into hiding after news of the collapse spread, was nabbed near the Ganga canal bridge of Sathedi village by a joint team of Muradnagar and Niwari police.
The Ghaziabad Police on Monday had arrested Muradnagar Nagar Palika Executive Officer Niharika Singh, Junior Engineer Chandra Pal and Supervisor Ashish as they were involved in the tendering process for building the structure.
They were sent to judicial custody for 14 days.