A special MP-MLA court in Lucknow has issued a summons to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in connection with a defamation case linked to his remarks about the Indian Army.
In Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, a Muslim Zomato delivery agent was assaulted, subjected to Islamophobic slurs, had liquor poured on him, and was held hostage for over an hour by four men in a single-storey house.
The Lucknow Development Authority (LDA) on June 10, began the demolition of shops and houses in the city’s more than 50-year-old Akbar Nagar locality amid heavy security deployment.
The Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency of East Uttar Pradesh will go to the polls in the upcoming phase of the 2024 general election on May 20th, Monday. The capital city of Uttar Pradesh has traditionally been the strong Bharatiya Janata party bastion for over the last two decades with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh representing the seat as an elected Member of Parliament and seeking a third term, this time.
Ravidas Mehrotra, the Samajwadi Party candidate in the Lucknow Lok Sabha constituency, speaks to Maktoob’s Ghazala Ahmad about his election promises, the need for the INDIA alliance, the price hike and unemployment in the country, the anti-CAA protests and state crackdown in Lucknow, and PM Modi’s hate campaigns against Muslims.