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With 85 more candidates in its fourth list, the BJP has announced 195 candidates for 403 members of Uttar Pradesh assembly. In its fourth list, the BJP has given 15 tickets to women including Aditi Singh former Congress from Rae Bareli. On Wednesday, the party announced one more candidate for Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls in its third list.

Addressing a press conference here, Utpal Parrikar also said that his candidature was rejected by the party during the 2019 Panaji bypolls -- facilitated after his father's death -- despite support from his constituents, adding that the BJP no longer looks like the party of which his father was a part. "People of Panaji did not vote for Manohar Parrikar just because he was an MP. They voted for him because he stood for some values. The time has come for me to also stand for those values," Utpal Parrikar said,

Amarinder Singh said he had earlier passed the same bridge, where the Prime Minister had been stuck for a long duration, and there was no blockade there. On January 5, the Prime Minister's rally in Ferozepur had to be cancelled due to a security lapse after some protesters blocked a route and forced his convoy to spend about 20 minutes on a flyover. The Prime Minister was enroute the National Martyrs Memorial at Hussainiwala when the incident happened.

The Vahini that had become dormant after Yogi Adityanath became chief minister, is springing back to activity. Its members have already launched an intensive campaign to ensure Yogi Adityanath's victory in Gorakhpur. P.K. Mall general secretary, HYV, said that the Vahini members have decided to organise door-to-door meetings, digital meetings, and strengthen its organisation at the booth level across the assembly segment.

"Congress Party believes that progress is founded on a good education. It pledges to significantly increase funding for primary, secondary, and higher education and to make every effort to correct systemic disparities. It will unshackle the immense potential of the state to provide opportunities for employment and entrepreneurship to the youth," says the manifesto which runs into 20 pages.

President Ram Nath Kovind, Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, BJP President J.P. Nadda and several Union ministers and Chief Ministers of the neighbouring northeastern states greeted the people on the occasion.

"The Centre stopped procuring rice in Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh districts from the 2005–06 fiscal year. Because of this, the farmers were being forced to sell their produce in markets at lower prices, incurring losses amounting to crores of rupees every year," Inder Singh, a paddy grower in Panniwali, told 101Reporters. The farmers had made several representations to the officials in the administration over the years, requesting them to restart procurement.

The universities include Calcutta University, Presidency University and Jadavpur University. The warning comes close on the heels of chancellors and vice-chancellors of private universities not attending a meeting called by the Governor at the Raj Bhawan last week.

Addressing a gathering as part of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's 'Samaj Sudhar Abhiyan' (social reforms campaign) in Samastipur, Singhal said: "The daughters should go for arranged marriage with the consent and blessings of their parents. We have witnessed a large number of cases where girls took decisions for marriage on their own, leading to unpleasant consequences."

The remark came after West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar alleged that Vice-Chancellors were appointed in 24 universities across the state without his approval.