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Jailed politician Shrikant Tyagi's wife on Wednesday claimed threat from Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma after which the BJP demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

Amid a war of words between the Uttar Pradesh government and the opposition over the EPF scam, the state Congress has sought on Wednesday a probe into power minister Shrikant Sharma's 2017 Dubai visit.

A former top official with Uttar Pradesh's power department was arrested in Lucknow on Tuesday morning amid a political tussle over an alleged Rs 2,500-crore scam involving the Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), a private firm accused of money laundering and financial irregularities. Two other officials were taken into custody a few days ago.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Monday demanded a probe by a sitting high court judge into the investment of over Rs 2,600 crore of UP power corporation employees' provident fund in scam-hit housing finance firm DHFL.

Political discourse hit a new low today as the BJP's Shrikant Sharma, a minister in Yogi Adityanath's government, of the BJP, in a tweet, used the slur "impotent" for the Congress. He got called out by Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, which, however, took the discussion down by another notch, citing the Prime Minister.

The BJP on Monday demanded an apology from Congress President Rahul Gandhi for posters appearing in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi and "denigrated" Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A special cell to monitor crime will be set up in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's office and will be personally overseen by him, the state's Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma said today. Mr Sharma said that the BJP government had ensured the security of the common man and checked crime in 50 days.

The BJP announced a list of 149 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, to be held in seven phases between February 11 and Match 8. Most of the candidates announced today will contest the polls in the first two phases on February 11 and 15.

Vijay Mallya, 60, is a "Congress baby", the ruling BJP said about the tycoon who has controversially left India as banks ratchet up efforts to collect the nearly billion dollars that his Kingfisher Airlines.

BJP today described as an exercise in "cheap publicity and propaganda", the one-man Commission of Inquiry's communication to the NSA, in which it has sought names of officers to be part of its probe in the alleged irregularities in DDCA affairs.

Crediting the "success" of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Act East" policy, BJP today said bilateral agreements on civil nuclear energy, railways and others will boost economy and job growth in India.

Hitting out at Congress over its defence of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh who was booked by CBI in disproportionate assests case, the BJP asked how much commission Singh had given to the main opposition party and also questioned its silence over demands for his resignation.

Senior BJP leaders today jumped to beleaguered Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's defence with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying nobody is "tainted".

BJP today hit back at former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and accused him of making "baseless" allegations against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to hide the "failures" of the UPA government to initiate action against former IPL chief Lalit Modi.

BJP chief Amit Shah today held talks with Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) head Ram Vilas Paswan as BJP-led NDA today decided to jointly campaign in Bihar assembly polls, slated later this, to take on the Janata Parivar spearheaded by JD(U)-RJD combine.

Jailed politician Shrikant Tyagi's wife on Wednesday claimed threat from Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma after which the BJP demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

Amid a war of words between the Uttar Pradesh government and the opposition over the EPF scam, the state Congress has sought on Wednesday a probe into power minister Shrikant Sharma's 2017 Dubai visit.

A former top official with Uttar Pradesh's power department was arrested in Lucknow on Tuesday morning amid a political tussle over an alleged Rs 2,500-crore scam involving the Dewan Housing Finance Limited (DHFL), a private firm accused of money laundering and financial irregularities. Two other officials were taken into custody a few days ago.

The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Monday demanded a probe by a sitting high court judge into the investment of over Rs 2,600 crore of UP power corporation employees' provident fund in scam-hit housing finance firm DHFL.

Political discourse hit a new low today as the BJP's Shrikant Sharma, a minister in Yogi Adityanath's government, of the BJP, in a tweet, used the slur "impotent" for the Congress. He got called out by Lalu Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal, which, however, took the discussion down by another notch, citing the Prime Minister.

The BJP on Monday demanded an apology from Congress President Rahul Gandhi for posters appearing in his Lok Sabha constituency Amethi and "denigrated" Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

A special cell to monitor crime will be set up in Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's office and will be personally overseen by him, the state's Energy Minister Shrikant Sharma said today. Mr Sharma said that the BJP government had ensured the security of the common man and checked crime in 50 days.

The BJP announced a list of 149 candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, to be held in seven phases between February 11 and Match 8. Most of the candidates announced today will contest the polls in the first two phases on February 11 and 15.

Vijay Mallya, 60, is a "Congress baby", the ruling BJP said about the tycoon who has controversially left India as banks ratchet up efforts to collect the nearly billion dollars that his Kingfisher Airlines.

BJP today described as an exercise in "cheap publicity and propaganda", the one-man Commission of Inquiry's communication to the NSA, in which it has sought names of officers to be part of its probe in the alleged irregularities in DDCA affairs.

Crediting the "success" of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Act East" policy, BJP today said bilateral agreements on civil nuclear energy, railways and others will boost economy and job growth in India.

Hitting out at Congress over its defence of Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh who was booked by CBI in disproportionate assests case, the BJP asked how much commission Singh had given to the main opposition party and also questioned its silence over demands for his resignation.

Senior BJP leaders today jumped to beleaguered Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's defence with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley saying nobody is "tainted".

BJP today hit back at former Finance Minister P Chidambaram and accused him of making "baseless" allegations against External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj to hide the "failures" of the UPA government to initiate action against former IPL chief Lalit Modi.

BJP chief Amit Shah today held talks with Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) head Ram Vilas Paswan as BJP-led NDA today decided to jointly campaign in Bihar assembly polls, slated later this, to take on the Janata Parivar spearheaded by JD(U)-RJD combine.