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Family members of the slain Kamlesh Tiwari meeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at his residence in Lucknow on October 20.

Kamlesh Tiwari's mysterious murder

Hindu Samaj Party leader Kamlesh Tiwari’s political and personal journey and the complicated ways in which these progressed raise doubts about whether
Venkitesh Ramakrishnan ,Recently in Lucknow
NEW DELHI, 06/01/2017: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with BJP president Amit Shah during the BJP National Executive Meeting, in New Delhi on Friday. Photo: V. Sudershan

Communal twist

The Bharatiya Janata Party plays the communal card in Uttar Pradesh, indicating that desperation has begun to consume the party as the Assembly electi
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN,in Lucknow,Allahabad,Varanasi
LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, 03/11/2016: AKHILESH SAMAJWADI VIKAS RATH YATRA : Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, at the flagging off function of Samajwadi Vikas Rath Yatra to Unnaon, at Lucknow on November 03, 2016 after an hour he had to leave his much talked about state of art customised Mercedes Rath after it developed some malfunction. Photo Rajeev Bhatt

State of flux

Major political parties in Uttar Pradesh swing between confidence and doubt in the run-up to the Assembly elections in the context of the tussle in th
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Lucknow
LUCKNOW, UTTAR PRADESH, 03/11/2016: AKHILESH SAMAJWADI VIKAS RATH YATRA :: Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav during Samajwadi Vikas Rath Yatra enroute Unnaon, at Lucknow on November 03, 2016 after an hour he had to leave his much talked about state of art customised Mercedes Rath (seen behind) after it developed some malfunction. Photo Rajeev Bhatt

Advent of Akhilesh

The emergence of the “Akhilesh factor” in the political space in Uttar Pradesh and the surge in the 43-year-old Chief Minister’s stock within the Sama
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Lucknow
Lucknow: Prime Minister Narendra Modi paying floral tributes at the bust of Dr. Ambedkar, at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, in Lucknow on Friday. PTI Photo(PTI1_22_2016_000170A)

Cold calculations

After defensive tactics and firefighting on the Rohith Vemula issue, the BJP may now raise a communal plank with an eye on Dalit votes.
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Lucknow,New Delhi

An epidemic in Uttar Pradesh

An outbreak of Japanese encephalitis claims a large number of lives in eastern Uttar Pradesh as in previous years and the State government is caught n
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Gorakhpur and Lucknow Photographs: Subir Roy

A new caste formula

The BSP's efforts to reach out to the Brahmin community point to the party's plans to forge a new Brahmin-Dalit-Muslim social alliance in Uttar Prades
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Lucknow

THE BATTLE FOR U.P.

The Bharatiya Janata Party could meet with an electoral disaster in the country's most populous State as Muslims resort to `strategic voting', mostly
VENKITESH RAMAKRISHNAN in Lucknow

Strategic voting

Notwithstanding the election-eve tactics of the BJP and a handful of "community" organisations, Muslims in the State will yet again vote tactically to
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Lucknow

Feel good wearing thin

in Lucknow
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Lucknow

THE UTTAR PRADESH DRAMA

Political equations in Uttar Pradesh go into a spin with Mayawati suddenly snapping her alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party and the latter, in a
PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Lucknow

A man and his mission

Sandeep Pandey, the winner of the 2002 Magsaysay award in the Emergent Leader category, is a man with a mission - of giving the poorest of the poor in
T.K. RAJALAKSHMI in Lucknow
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