POLITICS

Congress MP from Punjab, Manish Tewari on Wednesday questioned the state leaders for doing nothing for the students stranded in Ukraine. Congress MP from Punjab, Manish Tewari on Wednesday questioned the state leaders for doing nothing for the students stranded in Ukraine.

Mamata went to take part in the Ganga Aarti at the Dashashwamedh Ghat in Varanasi and to express her annoyance over the incident, she sat on the ghat steps instead of a chair and watched the Ganga Aarti. The West Bengal chief minister's convoy was passing through Chetganj area when a group of Hindu Yuva Vahini workers started raising slogans like 'wapas jao' (go back) and waved black flags. They were restrained by the police present on the spot.

In high Octane battle between the Congress and AAP in Punjab, SP and BJP in Uttar Pradesh, it is the Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) which may emerge as king-maker in both the states as the party may gain significance in case of hung assemblies in these states. Sources say that all the parties in these states are looking to the potential winners from the BSP.The BSP is contesting around 20 seats in Punjab and is likely to emerge as king-maker in an event of a hung assembly. The state, however, had given clear mandate from 2007 to 2017.

 Polling has begun for the sixth phase of assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh in which 57 assembly constituencies, spread across ten districts are going to polls. The districts where polling is being held on Thursday are Ambedkar Nagar, Balrampur, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nagar, Maharajganj, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria and Ballia. These 57 assembly segments, of which 11 are reserved, are particularly crucial for the BJP.