The chief minister’s statements come a day after his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar said NRC would be implemented in the state. New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has called the implementation of National Register of Citizens (NRC) an “important and brave” decision of the government and said the state can look at rolling out the exercise in phases if the need arises. “In the first phase, it has been Assam and the way it is being implemented there, it can be an example for us. Using their experience,Read More

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said that the common people were ‘fed-up’ of the government, while Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati said that the government was causing more trouble for ‘hard working people’. Lucknow: Opposition parties in Uttar Pradesh came down heavily on the Yogi Adityanath-led BJP government over the increment of about 12 to 15 percent on power tariffs ahead of the festival season, while the state power minister Shrikant Sharma defended the move. Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav tweeted, “At one hand the reduction in income and demandRead More