Topic: uttarpradesh

Soon after After Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath again, used a government event to take pot-shots at their rivals ahead of Uttar Pradesh polls, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav questioned the saffron party's use of non-political platforms for election campaign purposes.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya on Friday in a hate speech said the poor law and order situation in the state earlier was due to people in "skull caps who threatened traders", among others.

Muslims in Uttar Pradesh were being framed in fake cases and a sense of fear was being instilled through new rules and laws, said Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo and former Chief Minister Mayawati.

And as Hindutva forces have been claiming from long ago, the day is not far when a Babri-like incident could be repeated to claim Mosque sites and Hindu sacred spaces which might inevitably result in a further rise in hate crimes or even a pogrom like situation for Muslims across India.

A division bench of Allahabad High Court on Friday quashed the charges invoked under the National Security Act (NSA) against six anti-CAA protesters in Uttar Pradesh’s Mau district, terming the administration’s NSA orders "illegal."

Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh targeted the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh, saying that "corruption" and "paper leaks" have become a part of the Yogi government's identity after the state Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET 2021) was canceled following reports of a question paper leak.