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<ul><li><keyword id="6354265" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="samajwadi-party" source="Orion">Samajwadi Party</keyword> founder and veteran politician <keyword id="6357168" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="mulayam-singh-yadav" source="Orion">Mulayam Singh Yadav</keyword> passed away today after a prolonged illness.</li><li>The SP patron was 82-years-old and was on life support system since the past one week.</li><li>Yadav was facing difficulty in breathing and was on life-saving drugs since Sunday.</li></ul>Veteran Samajwadi leader and MP, <keyword id="42422" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="mulayam" source="Orion">Mulayam</keyword> Singh Yadav, died here on Monday after a prolonged illness. His son and former Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="akhilesh-yadav" source="Orion">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword> tweeted about his demise. Mulayam Singh Yadav was 82 and had been on life support system since the past one week. He was admitted to the <keyword id="488355" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="medanta-hospital" source="Orion">Medanta hospital</keyword> in Gurugram on August 22. According to hospital sources, he breathed his last at 8.15 a.m. on Monday. The 82-year-old Samajwadi Party patriarch was facing difficulty in breathing and was under the supervision of an internal medicine expert at the Medanta Hospital, as per sources. Singh was suffering from a urinary infection as well, hospital sources had said. On Sunday, Medanta Hospital had put out a health bulletin stating that the veteran leader's condition was quite critical and that he was on life-saving drugs.

Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav passes away at 82

From wrestler to veteran politician – Life and times of ‘Netaji’ Mulayam Singh Yadav

<table style="border-width: initial; border-style: none;"></colgroup><tbody><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#b7b7b7;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Constituency </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#b7b7b7;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Winner Candidate Name </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#b7b7b7;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Winning Party </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#b7b7b7;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Margin </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Azamgarh </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Akhilesh Yadav </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">SP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">259874 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Mainpuri </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">MULAYAM SINGH YADAV </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">SP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">94389 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Moradabad </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Dr. S.T. HASAN </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">SP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">97878 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Rampur </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Mohammad Azam Khan </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">SP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">109997 </td></tr><tr><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">Sambhal </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">DR. SHAFIQUR REHMAN BARQ </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">SP </td><td style="border-left:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-right:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-bottom:solid #000000 0.75pt;border-top:solid #000000 0.75pt;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#ffffff;padding:0pt 2pt 0pt 2pt;">174826 </td></tr></tbody></table> SP has won 5 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha elections 2019. Former Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav has won the elections from the Azamgarh lok sabha seat with a margin of more than 250,000 votes. Azam Khan has also defeated Jaya Prada from the Rampur seat by more than 100,000 votes. The Samajwadi party led by Akilesh Yadav faced the elections as part of the Mahagathbandhan involving SP, BSP and RLD. The exit poll results for the SP as per Axis IndiaToday-Axis MyIndia predict that the alliance made up by the three parties might win from 16 seats only. The Chanakya predictions for 2019 Lok Sabha seats presume only 2 seats for SP and its alliance. The other predictions for SP for the Lok Sabha elections 2019 include 17-19 by News18, 13 seats by India Today, 40 constituencies by CVoter and 41 seats by NewsX. The total number of parliamentary seats in UP is 80. In 2014 general elections for the parliament, SP got only 4 seats out of 80 from Uttar Pradesh. In 2009 elections, SP won from 22 constituencies. The winning statistics for SP during 2004 was 35 seats. In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Akilesh Yadav is fighting from Azamgarh Lok Sabha seat. Dharmendra Yadav fights from Badaun, Devendra Yadav from Etah, and Mulayam Singh Yadav seeks election from Mainpuri Lok Sabha constituency. The other important candidates for SP in UP are Azam Khan from Rampur and S.T. Hassan from Moradabad Lok Sabha seat. SP has nominated Shafiq-ur-Rehman from Sambhal ruling out the speculations that the party might field Aparna Yadav from here. In Maharashtra, SP was interested to form an alliance with the Congress party. The Congress did not heed to the demands of SP for any one seat among Mumbai South, Mumbai South Central, Bhiwandi, Mumbai North West, or Mumbai North Central seats. Following that, SP entered into an alliance with the BSP and they both agreed upon the seat sharing formula at the rate of 4 seats for SP and 44 seats for BSP. In Maharashtra, SP contested from four seats namely Mumbai North West, Bhiwandi, Beed, and Nanded.

SP winner candidate list for Lok Sabha Elections 2019

Lok Sabha Election 2019: SP Candidate List for Uttar Pradesh

A group of eight fighter jets will descend on Agra-Lucknow expressway on the day of its grand opening on November 21, which is also the eve of party supremo <keyword id="6357168" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mulayam-Singh-Yadav">Mulayam Singh Yadav</keyword>'s 78th birthday .The aircraft will then take off and do aerobatics in the skies. 
 UP expressways industrial development authority (UPEIDA) CEO <keyword id="3976511" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Navneet-Sehgal">Navneet Sehgal</keyword> told TOI, “All arrangements have been made to conduct the grand inauguration.A group of eight fighter jets will land and then take off from the newly-constructed expressway .“ 
 The 302-km expressway , which is chief minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword>'s dream project, has been completed in a record time of 22 months and has cost Rs 13,200 crore. It will get operational by December. The longest expressway in the country is currently a six-lane project, expandable up to eight lanes. 
 The expressway which will pass through Unnao, Kannauj, Etawah, Mainpuri and <keyword id="55697" type="CITY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Firozabad">Firozabad</keyword>, will reduce the travel time between <keyword id="6356295" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Agra">Agra</keyword> and Lucknow to just four hours, nearly half of what it takes now. Two farm mandis, a logistics hub, an IT City and a residential town are planned to be built along the expressway. 
 <keyword id="4855" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sehgal">Sehgal</keyword> along with Air <keyword id="3844676" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="vicemarshal-rajesh-issar">ViceMarshal Rajesh Issar</keyword> and other senior officers of <keyword id="6705798" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Central-Air-Command">Central Air Command</keyword> inspected the expressway stretch in <keyword id="3844677" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="bangarmau-of-unnao">Bangarmau of Unnao</keyword> district on Saturday . 
 “Indian <keyword id="6354954" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Air-Force">Air Force</keyword> planned the special air show as a tribute to the rapid completion of the expressway before its 26-month deadline,“ Sehgal said. The expressway was planned and constructed in a way that in the case of emergency or war, <keyword id="6355075" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="IAF">IAF</keyword> could land its fighter planes using the road as a runway.

Eight fighter jets to land on Agra-Lucknow expressway

<keyword id="6357713" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword>’s Assembly elections are just around the corner and in order to become voters’ favourite candidates, political parties have already started doing everything they can do. In a bid to woo voters, Akhilesh Yadav-led UP Government, yet again played the caste card, and gave a nod to include 17 Other Backward Castes in the Scheduled Castes (SC) list. 
 The cabinet meeting, presided by Chief Minister <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword>, cleared the proposal in this regard. 
 
As per the officials, the proposal that is aimed at wooing the OBCs in the coming elections, will now be sent to the Centre for clearance. 
 
There are 17 sub-castes which the government wants included in the SC category are Kahar, Kashyap, Kewat, Nishad, Bind, Bhar, Prajapati, Rajbhar, Batham, Gaur, Tura, Majhi, Mallah, Kumhar, Dheemar and Machua. 
 Before this, in March 2013, the <keyword id="396713" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh-assembly">Uttar Pradesh Assembly</keyword> had passed a resolution asking the Centre to include 17 castes of the state into the list of Scheduled Castes (SC) category. 
 In the resolution presented by Social Welfare Minister <keyword id="1401615" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="Avdhesh-Prasad">Avdhesh Prasad</keyword> and passed by the voice vote in the House, it was stated that in a detailed study by UP SC/ST Research and Training Institute, these 17 castes have been found "deserving" to be included in the list of Scheduled Castes (SC). 
 The <keyword id="6357168" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mulayam-Singh-Yadav">Mulayam Singh Yadav</keyword> government too had passed the resolution in the state Cabinet in February 2004 and had sent recommendation to the Centre for inclusion of these castes in SC list in December 2004. 
 
Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are likely to be held early next year.

Akhilesh Yadav plays caste-based politics in run up to UP polls, presses to get 17 OBCs on the SC list

<keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword> was leading in 214 constituencies in the initial trends available from across the country with its prime ministerial candidate <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> leading in both Vadodara and Varanasi constituencies as the counting votes went underway today. Other NDA partners – TDP, <keyword id="6358821" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Shiv-Sena">Shiv Sena</keyword> and Akali Dal – were leading in 11, six and four seats, respectively. 
 
Congress was leading in 70 seats with its partners, NCP and RJD, leading in three and seven seats, respectively. Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, fighting its first <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> election, was leading in five seats. But <keyword id="260213" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Arvind-Kejriwal">Arvind Kejriwal</keyword> himself was trailing from the Varanasi constituency. 
 
The early trends show that the Modi wave was sweeping the nation and the Congress seems to be swept away in the wave. 
 
Some prominent leaders in the lead were LK Advani (Gandhinagar), Sonia Gandhi (Rae Bareli), Uma Bharti (Jhansi), Sachin Pilot (Ajmer), Jaswant Singh (Barmer), Rabri Devi (Saran), Rahul Gandi (Amethi), Murli Manohar Joshi (Kanpur), Dimple Yadav (Kannauj), Mulayam Singh Yadav (Azamgarh), Yogi Adityanath (Gorakhpur), Maneka Gandhi (Pilibhit) and Rajnath Singh (Lucknow). 
 
All the BJP-ruled states - Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh - were headed to go the BJP way. 
Exit polls had predicted a massive victory for the NDA.

BJP Takes Massive Lead In Initial Trends

As it is clear from the early trends that the BJP is heading towards forming the government single-handedly, there is no likelihood of regional parties playing the role of kingmakers in the current scenario. 
 
In fact, BJP seems all set to form the government on its own, without even requiring the help of its National Democratic Alliance partners like Akali Dal and Shiv Sena. 
 
BJP was leading in 271 constituencies in the initial trends and its other NDA partners – TDP, Shiv Sena, Akali Dal and LJP – leading in 16, 17, four and five seats, respectively. 
 
As on 12 March 2014, there are 1616 parties registered with the election commission, out of which the numbers of national parties was six and that of state parties was 47. 
 
Just after independence, in the 1950s and 60s, the Congress party dominated the national political scene. But the opposition started gaining some space during late 60s and early 70s, with the Janata Party even wresting power from the Congress in 1977. This event set the ball rolling for the mushrooming of a number of small parties. 
 Most small parties are one-man shows, who exercise absolute control over the party. While the coming up of new parties reflects more democratisation, these have tended to become internally less democratic. Leaders <keyword id="2243296" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="like-Jayalalitha">like Jayalalitha</keyword>, <keyword id="6357690" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="mayawati">Mayawati</keyword>, <keyword id="6357168" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Mulayam-Singh-Yadav">Mulayam Singh Yadav</keyword>, <keyword id="43385" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Naveen-Patnaik">Naveen Patnaik</keyword> and <keyword id="18656" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Lalu-Prasad-Yadav">Lalu Prasad Yadav</keyword> have been running their respective parties single-handedly, without giving much room to internal dissent. 
 
Even in the run up to the 2014 elections, they were widely projected to play the role of kingmakers. But all these parties would be left high and dry if these initial trends get converted into results.

Kingmakers Left High And Dry

NEW DELHI: BJP faces a tough test in Bihar, <keyword id="1575" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Congress">Congress</keyword> stares at a saffron challenge in Maharashtra and regional outfits contend with turning pitches on 117 <keyword id="6355187" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha">Lok Sabha</keyword> seats across 11 states and one union territory where polling is due on Thursday. 
 
The 2014 Lok Sabha polls will be more than half over after elections to 347 seats are complete after the sixth phase of voting, with the 84, 91 and 41 seats left in the remaining phases. 
 
BJP and Congress are squaring off in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan and state bosses like Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee, AIADMK's J Jayalalitha and NCP leader Sharad Pawar are also slugging it out with their rivals. 
 
This phase will settle the fate of political biggies like SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and BJP leader Sushma Swaraj besides others like PDP’s Mehbooba Mufti, DMK's A Raja and Congress’s Mohammad Azharuddin. 
 
The political topography is a challenge to BJP and Congress which need to defend turfs while seeking fresh gains even as regional forces like SP, BSP, AIADMK and DMK look to do much the same, with the difference that some now see BJP as an unanticipated threat. 
 
All of 39 seats in Tamil Nadu and one seat of Puducherry will go to polls while elections will be over in major states like Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan. In Maharashtra the populous bell weather Mumbai-Thane-Kalyan belt will vote along with northern areas and Raigad. 
 The contests in Mumbai are keen, with Shiv Sena-BJP hoping to snatch seats from Congress-NCP riding on an anti-UPA wave and the diminished presence of <keyword id="6355257" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Raj-Thackeray">Raj Thackeray</keyword>'s MNS. 
 
 
 
 
Tamil Nadu is a fascinating mosaic, with front runner AIADMK losing some steam while DMK reportedly making a comeback of sorts and BJP’s unlikely alliance with DMDK, MDMK and PMK emerging as a force on its own. 
 In Bihar, a virtual eclipse of <keyword id="123462" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="40" keywordseo="Janata-Dal">Janata Dal</keyword> (U) poses problems for BJP with the fight appearing bi-polar in the five seats in Seemanchal and two that fall outside the region. There is a sizeable Muslim population in all seats and though BJP has been winning Araria, Purnea, Katihar and Bhagalpur, it now faces elections on its own. RJD boss Lalu Prasad and Congress seem to be back in the reckoning in the state. 
 
Mulayam Singh Yadav defends his base of Etah-Mainpuri-Etawah, areas where he must score to check a resurgent BJP with reports from 21 seats in western UP and Rohilkhand indicating gains for the saffronites. 
 
Though support for BSP is harder to gauge, SP’s main regional rival seems to be feeling the heat with religious polarisation post Muzaffarnagar riots making several contests primarily BJP versus SP affairs. 
 For BJP, the stakes continue to be high with its prime ministerial candidate <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> campaigning hard, addressing rallies in Hardoi, Etah, Firozabad and Mathura on Monday hoping for significant gains. 
 
The Jat vote is a factor in just as Yadavs are expected to rally behind SP while Akbarpur has sent BSP chief Mayawati to Lok Saba twice, most recently in 2004. 
 
In Rajasthan, prestigious Jat-influenced seats like Alwar and Bharatpur are due to poll along with constituencies like Tonk, Dausa and Sawai-Madhopur. 
 
In Chhattisgarh, urbanising seats like Durg, Raipur and Bilaspur will be voting with Congress hoping to loosen BJP's seeming stranglehold. 
 In West Bengal, Abhijeet Mukherjee, son of President <keyword id="6359124" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Pranab-Mukherjee">Pranab Mukherjee</keyword>, is facing an uphill battle, with Murshidabad presenting the only bright spot for the party. 
 In Assam constituencies like Kokrajhar, that witnessed fierce rioting, and capital Guwahati are going to polls. In Madhya Pradesh, BJP veterans like Sumitra Mahajan (Indore) and Sushma Swaraj (Vidisha) will seek re-election besides Congress's Meenakshi Natarajan, seen to be close to <keyword id="5268" type="PERSON" weightage="40" keywordseo="Rahul-Gandhi">Rahul Gandhi</keyword>, from Mandsaur.

Lok Sabha Polls: Voting In 117 Seats Today; Congress Faces Saffron Challenge

The <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> today struck down the hugely controversial Section 66 A of the <keyword id="6354751" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Income-Tax">Income Tax</keyword> Act, stating that the Act was not only ‘vague’ in the way it was worded, but it was also ‘unconstitutional’. So what does <keyword id="823722" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="the-section">the Section</keyword> say that created such a huge backlash from the public in general? Since the Section came to power, several petitions were filed at various courts challenging the section on the basis of what constituted ‘grossly offensive or menacing character’? The main contention has been that who is it that will decide what action or ‘post’ or ‘comment’ constituted ‘offensive’ enough to be put behind bars. Many an individual and political party has on several occasions used or rather misused the provisions within the section to jail individuals who aired their opinion on social media websites such as <keyword id="6354576" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Facebook">Facebook</keyword> and <keyword id="6354616" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Twitter">Twitter</keyword>. 
 
Cases in point: 
 · <keyword id="6361218" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="Jadavpur-University">Jadavpur University</keyword> <keyword id="6356384" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Professor">professor</keyword>, <keyword id="1009588" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="Ambikesh-Mahapatra">Ambikesh Mahapatra</keyword>, was arrested in <keyword id="6354925" type="COMPANY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Kolkata">Kolkata</keyword> for forwarding a cartoon about <keyword id="5269" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Chief-Minister">Chief Minister</keyword> <keyword id="43868" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Mamata-Banerjee">Mamata Banerjee</keyword>. · A class 11 student from UP was jailed for posting on Facebook a comment on UP <keyword id="6356245" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="minister">minister</keyword> <keyword id="6355085" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Azam-Khan">Azam Khan</keyword>. Khan belonging to the ruling <keyword id="6354265" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="samajwadi-party">Samajwadi Party</keyword> ensured he was behind bars in no time. · In UP again, a Varanasi <keyword id="299752" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="tourism-officer">tourism officer</keyword> was arrested for uploading “objectionable” pictures of Mulayam Singh Yadav, <keyword id="6355031" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Akhilesh-Yadav">Akhilesh Yadav</keyword>, and Azam Khan on Facebook. 
 So what exactly does Section 66 A of the <keyword id="6379296" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="IT-Act">IT Act</keyword> say? 
 The Information Technology Act, 2000 was amended in 2008. The amended Act which received the assent of the <keyword id="2540" type="POSITION" weightage="80" keywordseo="President">President</keyword> on February 5, 2009, contains section 66A. 
 
66A-Punishment for sending offensive messages through communication service, etc. 
 
Any person who sends, by means of a computer resource or a communication device,— 
(a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; or 
(b) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device, 
(c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages, shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine. 
 
For the purpose of this section, terms “electronic mail” and “electronic mail message” means a message or information created or transmitted or received on a computer, computer system, computer resource or communication device including attachments in text, images, audio, video and any other electronic record, which may be transmitted with the message.

What is Section 66A of the IT Act?

Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword>’s <keyword id="58687" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharatiya-Janata-Party">Bharatiya Janata Party</keyword> (<keyword id="14666" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP">BJP</keyword>) couldn’t have asked for a better time than now to take their massive election campaign in <keyword id="6357713" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Uttar-Pradesh">Uttar Pradesh</keyword> forward and Modi used it to the fullest. He slammed the entire opposition, including state parties, and said growth and development stalled in the state because the BJP was out of power for 14 years. 
 He hit out at the ruling <keyword id="6354265" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="samajwadi-party">Samajwadi Party</keyword> (SP), which split yesterday, and <keyword id="6356515" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bahujan-Samaj-Party">Bahujan Samaj Party</keyword> (<keyword id="6355170" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="BSP">BSP</keyword>), which is grappling with black money allegations, and the Congress which has been having trouble regaining its lost glory in Uttar Pradesh. 
 
"There is one party with minimal presence in UP, that is trying for 15 years to establish their leader but with little success. There is another party trying to save money and there is one more party trying to save their own family," the PM said at what the BJP has dubbed the 'Parivartan Rally' or the rally for change. 
 
He also made a point that he made sure that his party wants to work for the people and not hoard black money or save their family. 
 
“Some want to save their black money, some want to save their 'parivaar'. But BJP is the only party that will work to save the people,” he said. 
 
He also said that all the parties, for the first time has come together against him as they are intimidated by what he is doing and it will harm them. 
 
“For the first time in years, SP and BSP share the same opinion on one issue: 'Modi hatao'. But I say 'corruption hatao, kaala dhan hatao'. Now, it's up to the people to decide what they want,” PM modi said. 
 
The first party he referred to was the Congress, which has seen its political fortunes wane compared to its glory days in Uttar Pradesh in the 1970s and the 1980s. 
 The second party he referred to was Mayawati's BSP which has not been able to shake off the taint of corruption allegations. The third party he was referring to was the Samajwadi Party, which split yesterday following months of bickering between father <keyword id="6357168" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Mulayam-Singh-Yadav">Mulayam Singh Yadav</keyword> and his chief minister son Akhilesh. 
 
The PM also said that even though the BJP has not been in power in Uttar Pradesh, that doesn't bother him and his party but the fact that there has been minimal development in UP. 
 
“Kuch log kehte hain BJP ka 14 saal ka vanvaas khatam hoga, mudda BJP ke vanvaas ka nahin hai. Mudda 14 saal ke vanvaas ka nahin, 14 saal ke liye Uttar Pradesh mein vikaas ka vanvaas ho gaya hai,” he said. 
 
India, he said, can't prosper and grow unless Uttar Pradesh prospers and grows. 
 
The PM also predicted a win for the BJP in the upcoming elections in Uttar Pradesh. 
 
“Political pundits pontificate on the outcome of the UP elections. But after seeing this crowd gathered here, there's no need for them to expend further efforts. It is clear which way the wind is blowing,” PM said.

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