Assembly Polls 2022 highlights: Adityanath likens BSP’s list of candidates for UP polls to ‘Muslim league’
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FIR against SP candidate, supporters for vandalising local man's house
An FIR has been lodged against Samajwadi Party candidate from Kunda Assembly seat Gulshan Yadav and his supporters on charges of vandalising the residence of a local man, police said on Monday.
The complainant Vijay Pratap Singh alleged that on Sunday night, hours after the fifth phase polling, Gulshan Yadav, accompanied by 30 to 35 supporters, barged into his house and questioned him why he had voted for some other candidate and not him, assistant superintendent of police (west) Rohit Mishra said, citing the complaint.(PTI)
Manipur elections: 78.03% turnout reported in first phase polling
Stray incidents of violence marred the first phase of Manipur assembly elections to 38 constituencies on Monday as 78.03 per cent of around 12.09 lakh voters exercised their franchise till 5 PM when polling ended, an hour after the time announced earlier, officials said.
Naorem Ibochouba, a state police personnel deployed for poll duty in Tipaimukh assembly constituency in Churachandpur district, died in a "suspected case of accidental firing" from his service rifle, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Rajesh Agarwal said.(PTI)
BSP’s list of candidates for UP polls resembles ‘Muslim league’, says Adityanath
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Monday accused the opposition of playing politics of “appeasement” and alleged that the Bahujan Samaj Party’s list of candidates for the state polls resembled a "Muslim league".
Addressing a series of meetings in the poll-bound state, he said the opposition parties are spreading hatred among communities to increase their votebank.(PTI)
Bus carrying cops back from poll duty attacked in Balrampur
A bus carrying police personnel returning from election duty in the Balrampur assembly constituency was attacked by some miscreants in the trans-Ganga area near here, police said on Monday. The miscreants attacked the bus with iron rods shattering its window pans near Bangai village under the Tharvai police station area but no one was injured in the incident, police said. The bus was returning to Sant Kabir Nagar with policemen on poll duty, they said. As the bus was passing by the village, some youths walking on the road ahead refused to allow the bus to pass by them despite the driver repeatedly blowing the horn, police said.(PTI)