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Apna Dal (S) leaders approach BJP’s brass amid strained ties

Ashish Patel, who called on UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Friday night, arrived in Delhi on Saturday to meet BJP central leadership.

Ashish Patel has been accused by his estranged sister-in-law Pallavi Patel of irregularities in appointments and promotions in his department (X-ErAshishSPatel)

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Updated on Jan 05, 2025 04:00 AM IST

BySmriti Kak Ramachandran, New Delhi

In the eye of the storm, Ashish Patel calls on Yogi, seeks CBI probe, leaves for Delhi

Pallavi Patel, who was elected to the assembly on the Samajwadi Party ticket, has accused Ashish Patel of corruption in the appointment of the departmental heads in the technical education department.

Ashish Patel had said he was ready to be sacked, but would not resign from his ministerial post. (Sourced)

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Updated on Jan 05, 2025 05:12 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

Ready to be sacked, will not resign: Ashish Patel

Uttar Pradesh minister Ashish Patel defies corruption allegations, ready to be sacked but won't resign, claiming a conspiracy against him.

Apna Dal (Sonelal) leader Ashish Patel (HT file)

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Updated on Jan 03, 2025 07:34 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

Pallavi Patel protests over alleged corruption in technical edu dept

. “As per the new guidelines, direct appointment is done after selection through UPSC. There is no provision of promotion,” said Pallavi Patel.

Patel started indefinite protest at Chaudhary Charan Singh statue in Vidhan Bhavan on Monday (Sourced)

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Published on Dec 16, 2024 09:24 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

Could sense something was amiss in UP from 3rd phase of polls, says Anupriya Patel

She attributed the poor showing to the opposition being able to convince voters that the government would change the Constitution.

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Published on Jul 09, 2024 08:11 AM IST

BySunetra Choudhury

PDM Nyay Morcha fields Hansraj Kol from Allahabad seat

PDM Nyay Morcha, backed by AIMIM and Apna Dal, fields Hansraj Kol from Allahabad LS seat to fight for marginalized communities' justice.

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Updated on Apr 22, 2024 05:32 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Prayagraj

LS polls: Apna Dal (K) quits INDIA bloc, launches joint front with Owaisi's AIMIM

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Updated on Mar 31, 2024 08:09 PM IST

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Samajwadi Party’s alliance with Apna Dal (K) falls apart, Akhilesh Yadav says he has moved on

Apna Dal (K), led by Krishna Patel (the wife of the late Sonelal Patel who had launched Apna Dal), had allied with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls

All had not been well between the Samajwadi Party led by Akhilesh Yadav. and Apna Dal (K) since February (FILE PHOTO)

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Published on Mar 21, 2024 08:43 PM IST

ByHT Correspondent, Lucknow

Six of remaining 29 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh may go to BJP allies

The BJP had fielded candidates on 27 of these 29 seats in 2019 and won 20 of them. Opposition candidates won seven seats.

Two of the six seats, Mirzapur and Robertsganj, are represented by the Apna Dal (Sonelal). Union minister Anupriya Patel is the Mirzapur MP. (FILE PHOTO)

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Published on Mar 03, 2024 10:43 PM IST

ByRajesh Kumar Singh, Lucknow

SP-RLD, Congress joining hands in UP now a strong possibility

This day will go down in Indian history as the “Bengaluru revolution of patriotism and positive politics,” stated Akhilesh Yadav in a tweet

SP president Akhilesh Yadav with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi at the Bengaluru meet . (Sourced)

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Updated on Jul 19, 2023 12:52 AM IST

ByPankaj Jaiswal

Keeping up with UP | A small party plays a big role

Apna Dal is now split between a daughter, a BJP ally, and a mother, an SP poll partner. Both the big parties are aware of the smaller party's political heft

Apna Dal founder Sone Lal Patel contented that Kurmis were lagging politically, which led him to start a political party that today plays an important role in UP politics(HT Archive)

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Published on Jul 05, 2023 05:35 PM IST

BySunita Aron

AAP wins Jalandhar bypoll, gets its only Lok Sabha MP

In Jalandhar, AAP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku (47) defeated his Congress rival Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary by 58,691 votes

Jalandhar: Newly elected AAP MP Sushil Kumar Rinku greets supporters as he celebrates his win the Jalandhar seat by-election, in Jalandhar, Saturday, May 13, 2023. (PTI Photo) (PTI05_13_2023_000183B) (PTI)

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Updated on May 14, 2023 06:39 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

Crime to politics: Atiq Ahmad’s chequered life story

Through the 1990s, Atiq Ahmad kept bolstering his interstate gang, which at one point had 153 members, led by his younger brother Ashraf.

Atiq Ahmad was shot dead in Prayagraj on Saturday. (AFP)

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Updated on Apr 17, 2023 03:27 PM IST

ByK Sandeep Kumar, Prayagraj/lucknow

BJP ties up with Apna Dal, Nishad Party in UP

Announcing the decision, BJP president JP Nadda said the party will contest with its “NDA partners just as it has done for the Lok Sabha elections”.

BJP president JP Nadda with UP BJP in-charge Dharmendra Patel, Apna Dal leader Anupriya Patel, and UP BJP chief Swatantra Dev Singh at a press conference in New Delhi on Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022. (PTI / Kamal Singh)

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Updated on Jan 20, 2022 05:59 AM IST

BySmriti Kak Ramachandran, New Delhi

BJP locks candidates for UP battle, to contest polls with Apna Dal, Nishad Party

The announcement on part of the saffron camp was made by its national president JP Nadda, following the conclusion of a BJP central election committee (CEC) meeting earlier in the day.

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Updated on Jan 19, 2022 05:57 PM IST

Written by Joydeep Bose | Edited by Sohini Goswami, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

UP former minister Dara Singh Chauhan, Apna Dal MLA join SP

Chauhan, the legislator from Madhuban assembly constituency, joined the Akhilesh Yadav-led party along with Apna Dal (Sonelal)’s RK Verma, who represents Vishvanathganj constituency in Pratapgarh district in the state legislative assembly.

Dara Singh Chauhan, former minister in Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Government, joins Samajwadi Party (SP) in presence of SP national president Akhilesh Yadav at Samajwadi party office in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

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Updated on Jan 17, 2022 01:43 AM IST

ByHT Correspondent

NDA ties may be on the mend as BJP allies find space in new Cabinet

Also sworn in as Cabinet minister was the LJP’s Pashupati Kumar Paras who is entangled in a feud with his nephew and Lok Sabha MP Chirag Paswan for control of the party.

Lok Janshakti Party supporters celebrate the inclusion of party president Pashupati Kumar Paras in the new Union Cabinet, in Patna, Wednesday, July 7, 2021. (PTI)

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Published on Jul 08, 2021 02:00 AM IST

BySmriti Kak Ramachandran, New Delhi

Anupriya Patel: Mirzapur MP from Apna Dal makes a comeback

Patel made a re-entry as she earlier served as a minister of state in the first NDA government.

Apna Dal MP Anupriya Patel took oath as a minister on Wednesday. (ANI)

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Updated on Jul 07, 2021 07:24 PM IST

Byhindustantimes.com | Written by Shankhyaneel Sarkar | Edited by Avik Roy, Hindustan Times, New Delhi

UP minister says politicians, who aspire to be visionaries, need not be educated

“For instance, I am a minister and I have my staff. I don’t have to run jails. There are prison superintendents, others to do that,” the UP jail minister said.

The minister, elected on Bharatiya Janata Party’s ally Apna Dal’s ticket from Jahanabad, however, later said he had been quoted out of context.(Photo: ANI)

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Updated on Jan 30, 2020 05:05 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByManish Chandra Pandey

Battle for bypolls: BJP springs last-minute surprise, decides to field its candidate on ally Apna Dal (S) ticket in UP’s Pratapgarh

Raj Kumar Pal, a district level BJP functionary who was earlier with the Samajwadi Party, will be contesting the Pratapgarh assembly on the Apna Dal (S) symbol.

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Updated on Sep 30, 2019 05:56 AM IST

Lucknow | ByManish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow

Apna Dal (S) plays down its chief’s non-inclusion in Yogi ministry

The Apna Dal leaders appear resigned to the numerical dominance of the BJP, which won 312 seats in the 2017 UP assembly polls against nine MLAs of the Apna Dal.

Apna Dal (S) president Ashish Patel with his wife Anupriya Patel.(PTI File)

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Updated on Aug 23, 2019 10:51 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByManish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow

Wrote to CM about Sonbhadra village land dispute in January, claims Apna Dal (S) MLA Chero

Chero said that a group of Umbha residents visited him in December 2018 and told him that the village head Yagyadatt was forcing them to vacate the land following which he wrote to CM Yogi.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath meets with the kin of those killed over a land dispute in Umbha village, Sonbhadra, on Sunday, July 21, 2019.(ANI)

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Published on Jul 24, 2019 02:36 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Varanasi | ByHT Correspondent

As Centre rejects UP’s OBC inclusion bid, spotlight back on social justice report

The Centre’s rejection of Yogi Adityanath government’s decision to fulfil the 15-year-old demand of including 17 OBC sub-castes in the Scheduled Caste (SC) category has brought the spotlight back on the Social Justice Committee report (2018) which has been gathering dust for nearly a year.

In the past, both Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) governments have tried to push for the inclusion of OBC sub-castes, that make up for 14 per cent of the state’s electorate, but the move was rejected by the Centre.(Representative image)

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Published on Jul 02, 2019 06:09 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByManish Chandra Pandey, Lucknow

Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal elect most women MPs: 11 each

Overall, the 17th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women parliamentarians ever at 78

One of the biggest victories in Uttar Pradesh was of BJP’s Smriti Irani over Congress president Rahul Gandhi in the Gandhi family bastion of Amethi.(AFP File)

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Published on May 26, 2019 03:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | BySaurabh Chauhan, Lucknow

Once neck-and-neck, BJP now opens up big vote share lead on opposition alliance in UP

In 2014, the combined vote share of these three parties was 42.7%, compared to the 42.3% polled by the alliance of the BJP and Apna Dal . Out of the 73 seats won by the BJP-led alliance (71 by the BJP alone) in 2014, 38 were spoiler aided victories.

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Updated on May 24, 2019 08:36 AM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByAbhishek Jha

Mayawati meets Akhilesh to share notes on elections in UP, politics in Delhi

A day after Lok Sabha exit polls predicted gains for the SP-BSP alliance in politically crucial state Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav called on Mayawati in Lucknow on Monday.

The meeting comes two days ahead of the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha election.(ANI file photo)

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Updated on May 20, 2019 03:58 PM IST

Hindustan Times, New Delhi | ByPankaj Jaiswal

Lok Sabha elections 2019- ‘Amitabh Bachchan would have been better choice’: Priyanka Gandhi jabs Modi

The Mirzapur parliamentary constituency is one of the two Lok Sabha seats where the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally Apna Dal was successful in the general election in 2014.

Mirzapur: Congress General Secratary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra during an election roadshow in support of party's Mirzapur seat candidate Lalitesh Tripathi ahead of the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha polls, in Mirzapur.(PTI)

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Updated on May 14, 2020 03:21 AM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Mirzapur Election Results 2019 : Will Apna Dal win in this UP constituency again?

Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to Parliament at 80, will go to polls in all the seven phases of the Lok Sabha election 2019. Votes will be counted on May 23.

Gurgaon, India- April 10 : Usha Rain Verma sole candidate of lok sabha election gurgaon constituency stand in queue for given their vote, in Gurgaon, India, on Thursday, April 10, 2014. (Photo by Parveen Kumar/Hindustan Times)

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Updated on May 23, 2019 12:20 PM IST

New Delhi | ByHT Correspondent

Lok Sabha elections 2019: UP BJP ally SBSP declares candidates against PM Modi, Rajnath Singh

The BJP has left two seats for its other Other Backward Classes (OBC) ally, Apna Dal, and fielded an Apna Dal legislator on its symbol from Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat.

UP BJP chief Mahendra Nath Pandey said, “There is no ulterior motive in getting SBSP to contest election on our symbol from Ghosi. It is just that the chances of win would be certain on our symbol,” he said.(PTI FILE PHOTO)

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Updated on Apr 17, 2019 01:10 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Lucknow | ByHT Correspondent

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Yogi Adityanath confident his work will stand party in good stead

Despite constant attacks from the opposition, Adityanath appears confident about his ‘work for people’ and has predicted the BJP will win 74 Lok Sabha seats.

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Published on Mar 19, 2019 03:15 AM IST

Lucknow | ByUmesh Raghuvanshi

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Ashish Patel, who called on UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath in Lucknow on Friday night, arrived in Delhi on Saturday to meet BJP central leadership.

Pallavi Patel, who was elected to the assembly on the Samajwadi Party ticket, has accused Ashish Patel of corruption in the appointment of the departmental heads in the technical education department.

Uttar Pradesh minister Ashish Patel defies corruption allegations, ready to be sacked but won't resign, claiming a conspiracy against him.

. “As per the new guidelines, direct appointment is done after selection through UPSC. There is no provision of promotion,” said Pallavi Patel.

She attributed the poor showing to the opposition being able to convince voters that the government would change the Constitution.

PDM Nyay Morcha, backed by AIMIM and Apna Dal, fields Hansraj Kol from Allahabad LS seat to fight for marginalized communities' justice.

LS polls: Apna Dal (K) quits INDIA bloc, launches joint front with Owaisi's AIMIM

Apna Dal (K), led by Krishna Patel (the wife of the late Sonelal Patel who had launched Apna Dal), had allied with the Samajwadi Party ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls

The BJP had fielded candidates on 27 of these 29 seats in 2019 and won 20 of them. Opposition candidates won seven seats.

This day will go down in Indian history as the “Bengaluru revolution of patriotism and positive politics,” stated Akhilesh Yadav in a tweet

Apna Dal is now split between a daughter, a BJP ally, and a mother, an SP poll partner. Both the big parties are aware of the smaller party's political heft

In Jalandhar, AAP candidate Sushil Kumar Rinku (47) defeated his Congress rival Karamjit Kaur Chaudhary by 58,691 votes

Through the 1990s, Atiq Ahmad kept bolstering his interstate gang, which at one point had 153 members, led by his younger brother Ashraf.

Announcing the decision, BJP president JP Nadda said the party will contest with its “NDA partners just as it has done for the Lok Sabha elections”.

The announcement on part of the saffron camp was made by its national president JP Nadda, following the conclusion of a BJP central election committee (CEC) meeting earlier in the day.

Chauhan, the legislator from Madhuban assembly constituency, joined the Akhilesh Yadav-led party along with Apna Dal (Sonelal)’s RK Verma, who represents Vishvanathganj constituency in Pratapgarh district in the state legislative assembly.

Also sworn in as Cabinet minister was the LJP’s Pashupati Kumar Paras who is entangled in a feud with his nephew and Lok Sabha MP Chirag Paswan for control of the party.

Patel made a re-entry as she earlier served as a minister of state in the first NDA government.

“For instance, I am a minister and I have my staff. I don’t have to run jails. There are prison superintendents, others to do that,” the UP jail minister said.

Raj Kumar Pal, a district level BJP functionary who was earlier with the Samajwadi Party, will be contesting the Pratapgarh assembly on the Apna Dal (S) symbol.

The Apna Dal leaders appear resigned to the numerical dominance of the BJP, which won 312 seats in the 2017 UP assembly polls against nine MLAs of the Apna Dal.

Chero said that a group of Umbha residents visited him in December 2018 and told him that the village head Yagyadatt was forcing them to vacate the land following which he wrote to CM Yogi.

The Centre’s rejection of Yogi Adityanath government’s decision to fulfil the 15-year-old demand of including 17 OBC sub-castes in the Scheduled Caste (SC) category has brought the spotlight back on the Social Justice Committee report (2018) which has been gathering dust for nearly a year.

Overall, the 17th Lok Sabha will have the highest number of women parliamentarians ever at 78

In 2014, the combined vote share of these three parties was 42.7%, compared to the 42.3% polled by the alliance of the BJP and Apna Dal . Out of the 73 seats won by the BJP-led alliance (71 by the BJP alone) in 2014, 38 were spoiler aided victories.

A day after Lok Sabha exit polls predicted gains for the SP-BSP alliance in politically crucial state Uttar Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav called on Mayawati in Lucknow on Monday.

The Mirzapur parliamentary constituency is one of the two Lok Sabha seats where the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) ally Apna Dal was successful in the general election in 2014.

Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to Parliament at 80, will go to polls in all the seven phases of the Lok Sabha election 2019. Votes will be counted on May 23.

The BJP has left two seats for its other Other Backward Classes (OBC) ally, Apna Dal, and fielded an Apna Dal legislator on its symbol from Pratapgarh Lok Sabha seat.

Despite constant attacks from the opposition, Adityanath appears confident about his ‘work for people’ and has predicted the BJP will win 74 Lok Sabha seats.

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