BJP did not sweep UP rural council polls. But does that matter ahead of the assembly elections?
BJP did not sweep UP rural council polls. But does that matter ahead of the assembly elections?
Travelling through three districts of western Uttar Pradesh, the anger against the Adityanath government is hard to miss. But it’s not uniform. 6 hours ago Bharatiya Janata Party Uttar Pradesh state president Swatantra Dev Singh and Chief Minister Adityanath celebrate their party s victory in the block panchayat elections on July 10. | PTI
On July 3, Veerpal Narwal was elected chairperson of Muzaffarnagar’s district council. The road to the chair was a tough one for the Bharatiya Janata Party politician. In May, Narwal had almost lost the zila panchayat elections from his ward – it is the winners of these direct elections who can stand for and vote for the position of the district council’s chairperson. It was only after a controversial recount in May tha
MEERUT: A group of policemen in plain clothes surrounded a car carrying a BJP functionary and four of his relatives in UP’s Shamli, allegedly opening fire that left one of the men with a bullet wound. The incident, caught on CCTV camera, shows a car pulling up in the middle of a road with its left indicator blinking and a bunch of men swiftly surrounding it. The car then speeds away, almost hitting two cops of the special operation group, reports Sandeep Rai.
Senior police officers, caught off guard by Tuesday’s incident, have ordered an inquiry. Shamli SP Sukriti Madhav said, “We are trying to verify if the firing was intentional or not.”