Meeting Elections 2022 LIVE Updates: Counting of votes shall be held on March 10. (File)
New Delhi:
Aparna Yadav, married to Akhilesh Yadav’s brother, joined the BJP on Wednesday, in a blow to the Samajwadi Social gathering simply weeks earlier than the Uttar Pradesh election.
Aparna Yadav is the spouse of Akhilesh Yadav’s brother Pratik Yadav, the youthful son of Samajwadi Social gathering patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav. BJP leaders, welcoming her to the get together, referred to her as “Mulayam Singh’s bahu (daughter-in-law)”.
“I’ve all the time been impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi,” Aparna Yadav mentioned, sporting a BJP scarf.
“I now need to attempt to do higher for the nation. I’ve all the time been very impressed by the schemes of the BJP and I’ll do my finest within the get together,” she declared.
In the meantime, Lawyer and social employee Amit Palekar is the Aam Aadmi Social gathering (AAP)’s chief ministerial candidate for Goa, get together chief and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal introduced on Wednesday.
Mr Palekar is from the OBC Bhandari group, which accounts for about 35 per cent of Goa’s inhabitants. He was just lately within the information for his starvation strike to protest unlawful development at an Outdated Goa heritage website.
The 46-year-old, who joined AAP this October, is the get together’s candidate from the St Cruz Meeting constituency at present represented by the BJP.
Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Punjab, and Uttarakhand will vote over seven phases beginning February 10, with counting of votes scheduled for March 10.
A complete of 690 Meeting constituencies will vote over the subsequent two months, with the utmost in UP (403 seats) adopted by Punjab (117), Uttarakhand (70), Manipur (60) and Goa (40).
Listed here are the LIVE Updates on Meeting Elections 2022:
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Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi’s get together All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Wednesday launched the third listing of candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Meeting elections.
The listing has the names of seven candidates. To this point, the AIMIM has declared 25 candidates and will probably be contesting round 80 seats.
The AIMIM has fielded Vinod Jatav from Hastinapur, Imran Ansari from Meerut Metropolis, Shakir Ali from Barauli, Dilshad Ahmed from Sikandrabad, Vikas Shrivastava from Ramnagar, Rizwana from Nakur and Hafiz Waris from Kundarki.
Uttar Pradesh will go to Meeting polls in seven phases ranging from February 10 and the counting of votes will happen on March 10.
Sanyukt Sangharsh Social gathering (SSP) & Sanyukt Samaj Morcha (led by Balbir Singh Rajewal) have reached an settlement for Punjab Meeting elections. We (SSP) will contest 10 seats: SSP chief Gurnam Singh Chaduni (19.01)
Polls for 117-member Punjab Meeting shall be held on Feb 20 pic.twitter.com/kQv8e0NJ6j
– ANI (@ANI) January 20, 2022
Amit Palekar, the Aam Aadmi Social gathering’s chief ministerial candidate for the February 14 Goa polls, is a newcomer in politics, however belongs to the numerically vital Bhandari group.
The lawyer-turned-politician was within the highlight final 12 months for his efforts to offer oxygen cylinders to needy sufferers throughout the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
AAP nationwide convener Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday introduced 46-year-old Palekar’s title because the get together’s choose at a press convention.
Sharad Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Social gathering and the Shiv Sena will contest the Goa elections collectively, senior get together chief Praful Patel mentioned on Wednesday as, he claimed, the Congress refuses to speak of an alliance with its two companions in neighbouring Maharashtra.
“Now that we have now the Maha Vikas Aghadi in Maharashtra, this time additionally we first – as NCP – tried to talk to the Congress and at the very least until 2007, Congress used to go away seven out of the forty seats for the NCP. We had mentioned even when there’s an adjustment of numbers and we should scale back, we’re prepared. Let’s us work collectively in order that we will tackle the federal government right here (Goa),” Mr Patel advised reporters.
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