Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday said her party will not oppose Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind's candidature as presidential nominee unless the opposition announces a popular Dalit name.

In an unexpected move, UP government on Saturday late night took away or downgraded security cover for many VIPs including biggies like Mulayam Singh, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati, Ram Gopal Yadav and Azam Khan.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has his own way to rule the state. Just like PM Modi is taking some unexpected decisions. In another surprising move, he announced to abolish school and college holidays on birth anniversaries (jayantis) of great leaders and political icons.

Amid criticism from various quarters over the funcioning of the Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), the Election Commission plans to throw an open challenge to people in May to try to hack EVMs, an official source said on Wednesday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Uttar Pradesh has ordered a probe into the sale of 21 sugar mills at a "throwaway" price by former Chief Minister Mayawati.

Anna Hazare on EVM row: "The EVMs should not be discontinued. Those who doubt the machines are trying to go back in time. The world is moving ahead and EVM is the way to go."

Amid allegations that EVMs were tampered with in the just-concluded assembly polls, the Delhi Congress has asked Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to conduct the upcoming civic polls through ballot papers.

The Election Commission (EC) has refuted the allegations of tampering of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs), as levelled by BSP supremo Mayawati on Saturday. The EC said that the EVMs could not be tampered with and that candidates are allowed to randomly check the machines before the actual voting.

The Modi 'tsunami' in Uttar Pradesh not only saw the ground below the feet of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav slipping away but also swept away many members of the first family of the state. And while the 43-year-old Chief Minister lost his chair, his father and party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav has lost the aura surrounding his clan for many decades.

UP Election Results 2017: Six out of 10 assembly seats in Amethi and Rae Bareli parliamentary constituencies -- long considered Congress strongholds -- have gone to the BJP while two went to the Samajwadi Party, leaving the grand old party gasping with just two.