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Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Tuesday said his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath’s remarks about Kerala lacked propriety.

Days before the first phase of polling for the Uttar Pradesh assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party presented its election manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra. In it, the party promised to amend the state’s anti-conversion law to introduce a minimum imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of Rs 1…

Ahead of key Uttar Pradesh elections, state police accused of being ‘mercenaries’ of hardline Hindu nationalist government

A fragmented polity depresses turnout in Punjab; Uttar Pradesh’s polls indicate a closer battle.

In the 2017 Assembly polls, the turnout for these seats, which had gone to polls in the third phase, was 62.21%, the EC said

“Yadav probably doesn’t know that I have been monitoring the functioning of government schemes through an e-dashboard installed in my office as well as residence”

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The BJP chief also accused the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and the BJP's rivals in the state of patronising goons and the mafia.

The turnout in Punjab was down by around 12% in comparison to 2017 election

An average voter turnout of 63.44 per cent was recorded in Punjab while Uttar Pradesh, in its third phase of the Assembly elections, witnessed an average voter turnout of 57.43 per cent till 5 pm on Sunday.

Amid the ongoing polling for the third phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav took a jibe at incumbent Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday by calling him "Baba Bulldozer" and said that "Baba" will lose election just like contentious farm laws were withdrawn.