Lok Sabha polls top updates: Akhilesh Yadav to contest from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj
As soon as our government is formed, the first thing that would be done is caste census, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said.
The Samajwadi Party on Wednesday announced that party chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj constituency.
Meanwhile, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said that the first thing his party will do if it comes to power at the Centre would be to initiate the caste census.
Here’s a look at today’s top developments:
- Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest the polls from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency, the party announced. The constituency is a family bastion. He held the seat between 2000 and 2012. His wife Dimple Yadav had represented the constituency between 2012 and 2019. Party Mulayam Singh had won the seat in 1999.
- Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party are scared of the “X-ray” of the caste census and that no force can stop the exercise from taking place, PTI reported. “As soon as our government is formed, the first thing that would be done is caste census,” Gandhi said. He added that his life’s mission is to ensure justice for the 90% who he said have faced injustice.
- Dulu Mahto, the BJP candidate from Jharkhand's Dhanbad Lok Sabha seat, has been booked for alleged violation of the Model Code of Conduct, PTI reported quoting officials. Mahto had...
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