A woman looks at the Electronic Voting Machine before casting her vote inside a booth at a polling station during the state assembly election in Hapur, in the central state of Uttar Pradesh, India, February 11, 2017. People queue to cast their vote during the state assembly election, in the village of Kairana, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India, February 11, 2017.
Category: Hapur, India
50.4% voting in Ghaziabad till
Ghaziabad, Feb 11 – Ghaziabad district witnessed 50.4 per cent voter turnout in five assembly constituencies till 3.00 p.m. on Friday in the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. In Loni assembly constituency, 51.6 per cent votes were cast while Muradnagar constituency witnessed 51.29 per cent voter turnout.
Attempts being made to turn Western UP into Kashmir: Yogi Adityanath
Hapur , Jan 30 – Raking up the issue of exodus of Hindus from western Uttar Pradesh, BJP leader Yogi Adityanath said on Monday that if such a situation persisted, the region would soon become another Kashmir. Addressing an election rally at Dhaulana in Hapur district, the Gorakhpur MP alleged that Hindus were being terrorized in western Uttar Pradesh like Kashmiri Pandits were terrorized and forced to flee the Kashmir Valley.