UP Elections 2022 Updates: Anti-terrorism Squads to be Formed in Bahraich, Rampur, Meerut, Kanpur, Deogarh, Says Nadda in Kushinagar

UP Elections 2022 Updates: Addressing a rally in Kushinagar today, BJP national president JP Nadda said anti-terrorism squads will be formed in Bahraich, Rampur, Meerut, Kanpur and Deogarh. He said under the Yogi Adityanath-led state government people like Azam Khan and Mukhtar Ansari were in jail.

He asked, “Wouldn’t Azam Khan, Mukhtar Ansari have an upper hand under Akhilesh (Yadav) government? Under Yogi ji, they hid themselves in burrows and are now playing ‘gillidanda’ in jail.” He further asked, “Did goonism not end after Yogi became CM? Have the mafias not put behind bars?”

The campaign for 61 assembly seats across 12 districts of Uttar Pradesh going to the polls during the fifth phase of the state assembly elections ended on Friday evening. The voting for the fifth phase of state assembly elections will be held on February 27. State?s Chief Election Officer Ajay Kumar Shukla said the campaign for the fifth phase ended at 6 pm and all preparations for the voting on Sunday have been completed. There are a total of 692 candidates are in the fray for the fifth phase of polling and their fate will be decided by 2.24 crore voters.

The districts going to the polls on Sunday include Sultanpur, Chitrakoot, Pratapgarh, Kaushambi, Prayagraj, Barabaki, Bahraich, Shravasti and Gonda. Amethi and Raebareli, once considered as Congress bastions, Ayodhya, the epicentre of movement for the construction of Lord Ram temple too go to the polls on Sunday.

BJP supporters greeted Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath with the slogan of Bulldozer Baba zindabad as he held his roadshow here on Friday in support of his Cabinet colleague Sidharth Nath Singh?s candidature from City (West) assembly seat. Nearly two-km-long roadshow of the chief minister starting from Karbala Chauraha and ending at Nakhash Kona Chauraha of the city was attended by lakhs of people, eyewitnesses said.

During the entire roadshow, which started at 5 pm and ended at 6 pm, people carrying the BJP?s saffron flags rent the air with slogans of Jai Shri Ram and Bulldozer Baba Zindabad?.

The new term for the chief minister was first heard from Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, who, in a YouTube video, has claimed that a prestigious English daily has changed Yogi Adityanath?s name to Baba Bulldozer.

The term purportedly owes its origin to the extensive use of bulldozers by the Uttar Pradesh government for demolishing illegal properties of criminals in the state.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday trained his guns on the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, accusing them of promoting ?mafia raj? in Uttar Pradesh during their rule as he campaigned for BJP candidates in Pratapgarh.

Though he was addressing an election rally in Rampur Khas, from where veteran Congress leader Pramod Tiwari?s daughter Aradhna Mishra is seeking a third consecutive win, Shah only made a passing reference to the Congress while talking about ending Article 370 from Jammu and Kashmir.

The SP and the BSP were the target of his attacks, signalling the BJP is not counting the grand old party much in the ongoing high-decibel electoral battle for Uttar Pradesh, where the fifth round of voting is scheduled this Sunday.

?For 70 years, SP, BSP and Congress had been feeding Article 370 like a child in their lap which kept Kashmir divided from us. (Prime Minister Narendra) Modi-ji?s government came to power and on August 5, 2019, PM Modi struck down Article 370, Shah said.

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