Uttar Pradesh

Lucknow, Jan 27 (PTI) A special court on Thursday rejected the bail plea of former minister and Samajwadi Party MP Mohammad Azam Khan in a 2014 case.

Special MP/MLA Court judge Ambrish Kumar Srivastava passed the order observing that Khan had published such facts that might cause fear in the public, and a person or a community might be incited to breach the peace in the society.

An FIR was lodged against Khan in February 2019 following a complaint by one Allama Zameer Akhtar Naqvi with the Hazratganj Police.

Kanpur: The Congress has fielded Sohail Akhtar Ansari from Kanpur Cantt seat in the upcoming UP assembly polls.

It is worthwhile to mention here that he had earned victory on the seat in the year 2017 for the Congress.

However, there was strong speculation that he would switch sides to the Samajwadi Party, which did not announce its candidate from the Kanpur Cantt constituency.

People confident to the politician reacted  that he had kept the phone switched off.

Kanpur:  BJP MLA from Kidwai Nagar seat, Mahesh Trivedi, in a video while addressing a public gathering asked his supporters to beat tyrants with sticks and slippers.

He said, "I request that this time, people who are tyrants, who talk one-sided, who misuse power, beat them with sticks and slippers, but do not shoot. I will handle everything".

His statement was welcomed by the public with full cheers and claps.

It is said that the MLA was targeting his political adversaries in the constituency who belong to the Congress party.

Sitapur (UP), Jan 26 (PTI) Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan on Wednesday filed his nomination for Rampur Sadar seat from inside Sitapur jail.

The Returning Officer from Rampur visited the jail to get his nomination papers after an order was issued by Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Rampur Court, Jailor RS Yadav told media.

"As of now all paper formalities have been completed," he said.

Rampur will go to polls on Feb 14 in the second phase of UP elections.

Prayagraj, Jan 24 (PTI) A saint cannot be a chief minister as after taking the oath of secularism as a constitutional dignitary, he cannot stay "religious", a prominent seer said here on Monday, in an apparent reference to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The claim was made by Swami Avimukteshwaranand in his reply to a query on Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's status as a saint and the mahant of Gorakhnath temple in Gorakhpur.

Aligarh (UP), Jan 24 (PTI) The "Dharam Sansad", which was earlier scheduled for January 22 here, will now be held in the first week of April, an organiser said on Monday.

Puja Shakun Pandey, who is the national general secretary of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, said the decision was taken at a meeting.

"The Dharma Sansad, which was earlier scheduled to be held in Aligarh on January 22, will now be organised in the first week of April. It was postponed due to the Covid pandemic and the state elections," she said.

Kanpur: High drama was seen in Kanpur Dehat for over an hour when a man, stunned with his wife's alleged affair with a local man, climbed the tower with his children and threatened to commit suicide.

This caused chaos ultimately. The police arrived on the spot following information by the local people.

The occurrence occured on Monday near Gandhi Nagar of Akbarpur area. The man threatened to commit suicide after throwing his kids down from an elevation of almost 40-feet.

Lucknow, Jan 23 (PTI) The Samajwadi Party has urged the Election Commission to stop the opinion polls being aired on some news channels with immediate effect.

In a letter to the chief election commissioner, the party claimed that airing of the polls is a violation of model code of conduct and they can misguide the voters and influence the election.

Kanpur: Concern was raised on the single-day surge of 887 fresh cases in the third wave of Corona spread. One death was reported in the past days.

This comes after demonstrating a substantial dip in the virus cases on Thursday, with only a total of 354 cases.

According to the sources, the active case count of the city now stands at 3671, while the discharges remain at 428. 

On Saturday, Kanpur's witnessed the highest single-day surge of 887 fresh cases, in the third wave.

Lucknow, Jan 23 (PTI) At 8 feet and 1 inch, Dharmendra Pratap Singh from Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh has always stood out, dwarfing most others around him and leaving them awestruck.

Now, the former event manager, who claims to be the tallest man in India, is making his political debut with the Samajwadi Party and hopes to help it come out on the top in the upcoming state assembly polls.