TWO DAYS after he chaired a meeting with senior BJP leaders, including both Deputy CMs and the BJP’s state president, to discuss the party’s strategy for the coming Assembly bypolls, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, who reached Ambedkar Nagar from Ayodhya on Wednesday, convened another meeting of BJP office-bearers and public representatives. During the meeting, Adityanath emphasised that the coming election is a “contest between BJP’s development agenda and the opposition’s destructive propaganda,” sources said. He alleged that the opposition was indulging in “tactics of dividing society along caste lines and spreading…
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Ayodhya Rape Case: Girl’s family gives consent to abortion; cops may go for DNA test | Lucknow News
The family of a 12-year-old girl raped allegedly by a local Samajwadi Party (SP) member and his employee in Ayodhya has given consent to terminate her pregnancy. The girl is 12 weeks pregnant and is currently undergoing treatment at a hospital in Lucknow. Police, meanwhile, are planning to conduct a DNA test “to strengthen the case” against the two arrested accused. “The girl’s family has given consent (to terminate the pregnancy), and now the doctors overseeing her care will decide the next steps for the abortion. She was transferred to…
BJP MLA Bajpai opposes UP govt Bill on Nazul land | Lucknow News
Taking all by surprise in the UP Assembly, BJP MLA from Prayagraj Harshvardhan Bajpai on Wednesday spoke against his government’s Bill preventing the conversion of Nazul land into private freehold. His objections put the treasury benches in an awkward situation with the Parliamentary Affairs Minister Suresh Khanna making an intervention while Bajpai was speaking. “Aap samajh nahi rahein ho. Pahle padh toh lo (You are not getting it. First, go through it,” Khanna told Bajpai. Under the UP Nazul Property Bill, 2024, Nazul land — land owned by the government…
CM Yogi: Over 36 crore saplings planted across state in a day | Lucknow News
AT LEAST 36.50 crore saplings were planted across the state till 6 pm on Saturday, on the occasion of a one-day plantation drive launched by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, the state government said. In alignment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ initiative, the ‘Ped Bachao, Ped Lagao Jan Abhiyan 2024′ campaign was launched on a large scale across the state earlier in the day. Adityanath inaugurated the plantation campaign on the banks of the Kukrail River in Lucknow. The CM planted saplings in Prayagraj and Gorakhpur…
17-yr-old boy ‘shoots dead uncle & aunt’ | Lucknow News
THE LUCKNOW police have detained a 17-year-old youth for allegedly shooting to death his maternal uncle and aunt and injuring their son amid a “family dispute” on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. Police said the incident occurred when his maternal uncle, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, entered into an argument with his mother. The maternal uncle and aunt had been putting pressure on him and his mother to leave the house for the past few years, an officer said. “We have detained the boy and are interrogating him.…
Multi-storey housing to be built in slums: CM Yogi Adityanath at review meeting with Urban Development Dept | Lucknow News
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed the officials concerned to identify a slum in each municipal corporation and prepare a plan for the development of a multi-storey residential complex with basic facilities like schools, markets and parks in the vicinity. Emphasising the rehabilitation of slums, the CM issued the directions at a meeting to review the progress of various projects with the Urban Development Department. The markets developed in these complexes should be allotted to the families living in the slums, he said. According to an official statement, the…