The BJP had won the Lalganj, Jaunpur, Ghosi and Ghazipur Lok Sabha seats in the 2014 general elections but lost these to the BSP this time. read more

Manoj Sinha, a union minster of state for railways and a BJP candidate, is contesting against Afzal Ansari, elder brother of Mafioso-turned- politician Mukhtar Ansari of the BSP. read more

Manoj Sinha is the BJP candidate from the Ghazipur Lok Sabha seat while the BSP has fielded Afzal Ansari and the Congress has named Ajit Prasad Kushwaha as its nominee. read more

Uttar Pradesh, which sends the maximum number of members to Parliament at 80, will go to polls in all the seven phases of the Lok Sabha election 2019. Votes will be counted on May 23. read more

Union minister Manoj Sinha spoke to Kumar Uttam on the campaign trail in his constituency — Ghazipur — ahead of elections there on May 19. read more

Sinha, who is seeking re-election from Ghazipur seat, was addressing ‘Kisan Panchayat Sammelan’ in Saidpur area, about 40 km from the district headquarters, on Thursday evening. read more

Voting in parliamentary seats in eastern UP is scheduled in the sixth and the seventh phase falling on May 12 and May 19 respectively. read more

At a BJP press conference, Manoj Sinha also played down ally Shiv Sena’s praise for Priyanka, saying it is the party’s “personal opinion”. read more

Locals claimed the youths were angry at delay in being given registration forms for the event. Security personnel were reported to have intercepted the handkerchiefs and towels before they reached the dais. read more

According to data shared by Telecom Minister Manoj Sinha in the Lok Sabha Wednesday, illegal routing of international calls led to notional loss of Rs 750.13 crore in 2016-17 and Rs 788.92 crore, excluding interest, in 2017-18. read more

Union minister Manoj Sinha said “Most people in the country want the Ram temple to come up in Ayodhya, but the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wants it to be built with consensus or after the decision of the court -- in the spirit of the BJP’s manifest... read more

Railway Board chairman Ashwani Lohani had also ruled out any statutory inquiry into the incident, saying it was a case of trespass on rail tracks. read more

Minister of state for railways Manoj Sinha said there was no negligence on the part of the railways, and the driver could not have seen the crowds due to a curve in the tracks. The Railway Board said it would not conduct an inquiry since it wasn’t a... read more

The Punjab and Railway Police on Saturday questioned the driver of the train that crushed at least 60 people while they were watching the burning of a Ravana effigy from a railway track Friday night in Amritsar. read more

Railway officials also said they were unlikely to compensate the family of the dead as they were not passengers. read more