UTTAR PRADESH

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LIST OF CHEIF MINISTERS OF UTTAR PRADESH

#	NAME	TOOK OFFICE	LEFT OFFICE	PARTY
01	Nawab Sir Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari	03 April 1937	16 July 1937	Independent
02	Govind Ballabh Pant	17 July 1937 01 April 1946 26 January 1950 20 May 1952	02 November 1939 25 January 1950 20 May 1952 27 December 1954	Indian National Congress
03	Sampurnanand	28 December 1954 10 April 1957	09 April 1957 06 December 1960	Indian National Congress
04	Chandra Bhanu Gupta	07 December 1960 14 April 1962	14 April 1962 01 October 1963	Indian National Congress
05	Sucheta Kriplani	02 October 1963	13 March 1967	Indian National Congress
06	Chandra Bhanu Gupta [2]	14 March 1967	02 April 1967	Indian National Congress
07	Charan Singh	03 April 1967	25 February 1968	Bharatiya Lok Dal
		17 February 1968	26 February 1969	President's Rule
08	Chandra Bhanu Gupta [3]	26 February 1969	17 February 1970	Indian National Congress
09	Charan Singh [2]	18 February 1970	01 October 1970	Bharatiya Lok Dal
		02 October 1970	18 October 1970	President's Rule
10	Tribhuvan Narayan Singh	18 October 1970	03 April 1971	Indian National Congress
11	Kamalapati Yripathi	04 April 1971	12 June 1973	Indian National Congress
		12 June 1973	08 November 1973	President's Rule
12	Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna	08 November 1973 05 April 1974	04 April 1974 29 November 1975	Indian National Congress
		30 November 1975	21 January 1976	President's Rule
13	Narayan Dutt Tiwari	21 January 1976	30 April 1977	Indian National Congress
		30 April 1977	23 June 1977	President's Rule
14	Ram Naresh Yadav	23 June 1977	27 February 1979	Janata Party
15	Banarsi Das	28 February 1979	17 February 1980	Janata Party
		17 February 1980	09 June 1980	President's Rule
16	Vishwanath Pratap Singh	09 June 1980	18 July 1982	Indian National Congress
17	Sripati Mishra	19 July 1982	02 August 1984	Indian National Congress
18	Narayan Dutt Tiwari [2]	03 August 1984 11 March 1985	10 March 1985 24 September 1985	Indian National Congress
19	Vir Bahadur Singh	24 September 1985	24 June 1988	Indian National Congress
20	Narayan Dutt Tiwari [3]	25 June 1988	05 December 1989	Indian National Congress
21	Mulayam Singh Yadav	05 December 1989	24 June 1991	Janata Dal
22	Kalyan Singh	24 June 1991	06 December 1992	Bharatiya Janata Party
		06 December 1992	04 December 1993	President's Rule
23	Mulayam Singh Yadav [2]	04 December 1993	03 June 1995	Samajwadi Party
24	Mayawati	03 June 1995	18 October 1995	Bahujan Samaj Party
		18 October 1995	21 March 1997	President's Rule
25	Mayawati[2]	21 March 1997	21 September1997	Bahujan Samaj Party
26	Kalyan Singh [2]	21 September1997	21 February 1998	Bharatiya Janata Party
27	Kalyan Singh [3]	21 February 1998	12 November 1999	Bharatiya Janata Party
28	Ram Prakash Gupta	12 November 1999	28 October 2000	Bharatiya Janata Party
29	Rajnath Singh	28 October 2000	08 March 2002	Bharatiya Janata Party
		08 March 2002	03 May 2002	President's Rule
30	Mayawati [3]	03 May 2002	29 August 2003	Bahujan Samaj Party
31	Mulayam Singh Yadav [3]	29 August 2003	13 May 2007	Samajwadi Party
32	Mayawati [4]	13 May 2007	Incumbent	Bahujan Samaj Party

ELECTED POLITICAL OFFICIALS OF UTTAR PRADESH

Lok Sabha members of Uttar Pradesh

#	CONSTITUENCY	NAME OF MEMBER	PARTY
01	Agra	Babbar,Shri Raj	SP
02	Akbarpur(SC)	Majhi,Shri Shankhlal	SP
03	Aligarh	Singh,Shri Bijendra	INC
04	Allahabad	Singh,Kunwar Rewati Raman	SP
05	Amethi	Gandhi,Shri Rahul	INC
06	Amroha	Nagpal,Shri Harish	Ind.
07	Aonla	Singh,Shri Kunwar Sarvraj	JD(U)
08	Baghpat	Singh,Shri Ajit	RLD
09	Bahraich	Sayda,Smt. Rubab	SP
10	Ballia	Shekhar,Shri Neeraj	SP
11	Balrampur	Singh,Shri Brij Bhushan Sharan	BJP
12	Banda	Gupta,Shri Shyama Charan	SP
13	Bansgaon-SC	Mahabir Prasad,Shri	INC
14	Barabanki(SC)	Rawat,Shri Kamla Prasad	BSP
15	Bareilly	Gangwar,Shri Santosh Kumar	BJP
16	Basti(SC)	Prasad,Shri Lal Mani	BSP
17	Bijnor(SC)	Munshiram,Shri	RLD
18	Bilhaur	Warsi,Shri Anil Shukla	BSP
19	Budaun	Shervani,Shri Saleem Iqbal	SP
20	Bulandshahr	Singh,Shri Kalyan	BJP
21	Chail(SC)	Kumar,Shri Shailendra	SP
22	Chandauli	Yadav,Shri Kailash Nath Singh	BSP
23	Deoria	Singh,Shri Mohan	SP
24	Domariaganj	Muqueem,Shri Mohammed	BSP
25	Etah	Yadav,Dr. Kunwar Devendra Singh	SP
26	Etawah	Shakya,Shri Raghuraj Singh	SP
27	Faizabad	Yadav,Shri Mitrasen	BSP
28	Farrukhabad	Singh,Shri Chandra Bhushan	SP
29	Fatehpur	Nishad,Shri Mahendra Prasad	BSP
30	Firozabad(SC)	Suman,Shri Ramji Lal	SP
31	Ghatampur(SC)	Kori,Shri Radhey Shyam	SP
32	Ghazipur	Ansari,Shri Afzal	SP
33	Ghosi	Rajbhar,Shri Chandra Dev Prasad	SP
34	Gonda	Singh,Shri Kirti Vardhan	SP
35	Gorakhpur	Adityanath Yogi,Shri	BJP
36	Hamirpur	Budholiya,Shri Rajnarayan	SP
37	Hapur	Goel,Shri Surendra Prakash	INC
38	Hardoi(SC)	Verma,Smt. Usha	SP
39	Hathras(SC)	Diler,Shri Kishan Lal	BJP
40	Jalaun(SC)	Verma,Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh	BJP
41	Jalesar	Baghel,Prof. S.P. Singh	SP
42	Jaunpur	Yadav,Shri Parasnath	SP
43	Jhansi	Yadav,Shri Chandrapal Singh	SP
44	Kairana	Choudhary,Smt. Anuradha	RLD
45	Kaiserganj	Verma,Shri Beni Prasad	SP
46	Kannauj	Yadav,Shri Akhilesh	SP
47	Kanpur	Jaiswal,Shri Shriprakash	INC
48	Kheri	Verma,Shri Ravi Prakash	SP
49	Khurja(SC)	Pradhan,Shri Ashok Kumar	BJP
50	Lalganj (SC)	Saroj,Shri Daroga Prasad	SP
51	Lucknow	Vajpayee,Shri Atal Bihari	BJP
52	Machhlishahr	Yadav,Shri Umakant	BSP
53	Maharajganj	Chaudhary,Shri Pankaj	BJP
54	Mainpuri	Yadav,Shri Dharmendra	SP
55	Mathura	Manvendra Singh,Shri	INC
56	Mirzapur	Dube,Shri Ramesh	BSP
57	Misrikh(SC)	Rawat,Shri Ashok Kumar	BSP
58	Mohanlalganj(SC)	Jai Prakash,Shri	SP
59	Moradabad	Barq,Shri Shafiqur Rahman	SP
60	Muzaffarnagar	Hasan,Chaudhary Munawwar	SP
61	Padrauna	Yadav,Shri Baleshwar	NLP
62	Phulpur	Ahmad,Shri Ateeq	SP
63	Pilibhit	Gandhi,Smt. Maneka	BJP
64	Pratapgarh	Singh,Shri Akshay Pratap	SP
65	Raebareli	Gandhi,Smt. Sonia	INC
66	Rampur	Nahata,Smt. P. Jaya Prada	SP
67	Robertsganj (SC)	Bhai Lal,Shri	BSP
68	Saharanpur	Masood,Shri Rasheed	SP
69	Saidpur (SC)	Saroj,Shri Tufani	SP
70	Salempur	Prasad,Shri Hari Kewal	SP
71	Sambhal	Yadav,Prof. Ram Gopal	SP
72	Shahabad	Azmi,Shri Iliyas	BSP
73	Shahjahanpur	Prasada,Shri Jitin	INC
74	Sitapur	Verma,Shri Rajesh	BSP
75	Sultanpur	Khan,Shri Mohammad Tahir	BSP
76	Unnao	Pathak,Shri Brajesh	BSP
77	Varanasi	Mishra,Dr. Rajesh Kumar	INC

Rajya Sabha members of Uttar Pradesh

#	NAME OF MEMBER	PARTY
01	Akhilesh Das	Bahujan Samaj Party
02	Kamal Akhtar	Samajwadi Party
03	Munquad Ali	Bahujan Samaj Party
04	Gandhi Azad	Bahujan Samaj Party
05	Abu Asim Azmi	Samajwadi Party
06	Jaya Bachchan	Samajwadi Party
07	Balihari	Bahujan Samaj Party
08		Samajwadi Party
09	Murli Manohar Joshi	Bharatiya Janata Party
10	Banwari Lal Kanchhal	Samajwadi Party
11	Vinay Katiyar	Bharatiya Janata Party
12	Amir Alam Khan	Samajwadi Party
13	Mahmood A. Madani	Rashtriya Lok Dal
14	Mahendra Mohan	Samajwadi Party
15	Janeshwar Mishra	Samajwadi Party
16	Kalraj Mishra	Bharatiya Janata Party
17	Satish Chandra Misra	Bahujan Samaj Party
18	Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi	Bharatiya Janata Party
19	Ram Narayan Sahu	Samajwadi Party
20	Arun Shourie	Bharatiya Janata Party
21	Shahid Siddiqui	Samajwadi Party
22	Amar Singh	Samajwadi Party
23	Bhagwati Singh	Samajwadi Party
24	Isam Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party
25	Kusum Rai	Bharatiya Janata Party
26	Uday Pratap Singh	Samajwadi Party
27	Veer Singh	Bahujan Samaj Party
28	Brij Bhushan Tiwari	Samajwadi Party
29	Nand Kishore Yadav (SP)	Samajwadi Party
30	Veer Pal Singh Yadav	Samajwadi Party

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IMPORTANT PLACE

Agra Tourism-

Agra is the one of the prominent destinations of the World Tourism map with three heritage monuments - The Taj Mahal, Red Fort & Fatehpur Sikri. It is more just a dacadent city of graveyards and stones, but it is a vibrant centre of Culture, Art and Religious philosphies that have enriched mankind and shaped humen thought over centuries.

Allahabad Tourism-

The city of Allahabad is among the largest cities of uttar Pradesh and situated at the confluence of three rivers- Gana, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati. The meeting point is known as Triveni and is especially sacred to Hindus. The earlier setlemets of the Aryans were established in this city, then known as Prayag” Prayagasya Praveshshu Papam Nashwati Tatkshanam. All sins arre cleaned with entry in Prayag ( the ancient name of modern time Allahabad) PRAYAG is one of the historic & mythological cities of India with glorious past and present. It continues to enjoy the distinction of being a place of haunting and lasting meories. It is a city of mixed culture of Hindu,Muslims, Jains and Christans.

Ayodhya Tourism-

The ancient city of Ayodhya, according to the Ramayana, was founded by Manu, the law-giver of the Hindus. For centuries it was the capital of the decendants of the Surya Vansh of which Lord Rama was the most celebrated king. Ayodhya during ancient times was known as Kosaldesha. The Atharvaveda describes it as "a city built by gods and being as prosperous as paradise itself".

Jhansi Tourism-

Jhansi was a stronghold of the Chandela kings. Balwant Nagar was the name of this place. But in 11th. century Jhansi lost its importance. in 17th. century under Raja Bir Singh Deo of Orchha Jhansi again rose to prominence. Raja Bir Singh Deo had good relations with the mughal emperor Jehangir. in 1613 Raja Bir Singh Deo constructed the Jhansi fort. He died in 1627. After his death his son Juhar Singh succeeded him.

Kanpur Tourism-

Historically, Jajmau on the eastern outskirts of present day Kanpur is regarded as one of the most archaic townships of Kanpur district. Upto the 1st half of the 18th century Kanpur continued to survive as an insignificant village. Its fate, however, took a new turn soon after. in May, 1765, Shuja-ud-daula the Nawab Wazir of Awadh, was defeated by the British near Jajmau. It was probably at his time that strategic importance of the site of Kanpur was realized by the British.

Mathura Tourism-

Mathura widely known as birth place of lord Krishna is located on the western bank of river Yamuna at latitude 27degree 41 Minute N and 77Degree and 41 Minuet E. It is 145 Km south-east of Delhi and 58 Km north west of Agra in the State of Uttar Pradesh. For about 3000 Year it was the hub of culture and civilization.

Varanasi Tourism -

Welcome at "THE HOLY CITY VARANASI". Varanasi, or Banaras, (also known as Kashi) is one of the oldest living cities in the world. Varanasi`s Prominence in Hindu mythology is virtually unrivalled. Mark Twain, the English author and literateur, who was enthralled by the legend and sanctity of Banaras, once wrote : "Banaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend and looks twice as old as all of them put together". According to the ‘Vamana Purana’, the Varuna and Assi rivers originated from the body of the primordial Person at the beginning of time itself. The tract of land lying between them is believed to be ‘Varanasi’, the holiest of all pilgrimages.

Vrindavan Tourism -

Vrindavan 15 Km. north of Mathura on the same bank of Yamuna, lies the celebrated town of Vrindavan, almost as closely associated with Krishna as Mathura itself. indeed one hardly speak of Vrindavan alone to; the devout Hindu. Mathura-Vrindavan can not a unified image of untold beauty and religious sanctify.

LANGUAGE

Hindi

Urdu

FESTIVALS

Diwali-

Diwali is truly the most special festival in this preponderantly Hindu state and is celebrated with great vigor and joviality. The state wears a vivacious color throughout the Diwali festival and almost seems to come alive with exuberance. This festival is celebrated in the memory of Lord Rama’s victory over the demon king Ravana and his subsequent homecoming to Ayodhya after 14 years in exile.

Janmashtami-

The birthday of Lord Krishna which is popularly known as Janmashtami is celebrated in Uttar Pradesh along with the whole country with much vigor and enthusiasm. During this festival many legends of Shri Krishna’s life, including his exploits and his amorous dalliances with the gopies are enacted in the Raaslila. Bathing the image of infant Krishna and then placing it on a silver cradle are included in the ceremonies of midnight. Mathura being the birthplace of Lord Krishna and Vrindavan being his residence has a special place in the hearts of Krishna devotees.

Navaratri-

Navaratri is one of the most important festivals in Uttar Pradesh. Navaratri means “nine nights” and the festival is a nine days carnival dedicated to Goddess Durga. Another essential part of the Navaratri celebrations is the Ramlila. In the state of Uttar Pradesh almost every locality has its own group of actors enacting various episodes from the life of Lord Rama. This festival falls in the month of Ashwin or in the months of September/ October. The tenth day of the festival holds special significance as offerings are made to Durgadevi.

Maha Shivratri-

Maha Shivratri is a very popular festival in the state of Uttar Pradesh, which literally means “the night of Shiva”. This festival falls on the 13th or 14th day of the dark half of Phalgun or in the months of February/March. Maha Shivratri is observed in honor of Lord Shiva and it is believed that on this day Lord Shiva was married to Goddess Parvati. The ceremonies take place mainly during the night.

Ganga Festival-

Ganga festival is a much-awaited festival in the town of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh. This festival is celebrated on the banks of the river Ganga to worship the river. This festival is held in the month of October- November.

Ahoy Ashtami-

This festival comes four days after the celebration of Karva Chauth and is generally celebrated by the women for the welfare of their children.

Shitla Ashtami-

Shitla Ashtami falls on the eighth day after the ‘festival of colors’, Holi and is dedicated to the goddess of smallpox. This festival is followed by Ram Navami on Chaitra Sudi Navami, which marks the birthday celebrations of Lord Rama.

Bhaiya Dooj-

Bhaiya Dooj is a popular festival in Uttar Pradesh when sisters apply vermilion tika (auspicious mark) on the forehead of their brothers to mark their long lives. In turn the brothers reward them with money and other gifts. On Bhaiya Dooj weapons, pen and inkpot are also worshipped.

Karva Chauth-

Another popular festival celebrated by the Hindus of Uttar Pradesh is Karva Chauth. It is generally celebrated by the married Hindu females for the safety and the prosperity of their beloved husbands. This festival falls nine days after Dussehra and the day is spent on complete fasting and prayers till the rise of the moon after which they break their fasts.

Bharat Milap-

Bharat Milap is celebrated during the months of October/November and is carried out at Nati Imli on the day following Vijayadashmi or Dussehra. It pertains to the episode of the return of Lord Rama to Ayodhya after 14 years of exile, and his reunion with his brother Bharat.

Yoga Festival-

The importance of Yoga is unparalleled in the Indian civilization. This art of meditation and alternative medication has heavily influenced the Indian subcontinent and other parts of the world. The path of yoga is considered to be a perfect way to find peace of mind and solace without demeaning the soul. The yoga Festival held at Varanasi and Allahbad in Uttar Pradesh marks the movement, which got popular in the west as a counter-revolution to the Hippie movement.

Muslim Festivals-

The Muslim festivals in Uttar Pradesh are celebrated with as much pomp and enthusiasm as in the other states of the Indian subcontinent. The following Muslim festivals celebrated in the state of Uttar Pradesh are reflective of true secular spirit:

Eid-ul-Fitr-

This festival occurs at the end of the month of Ramzan, is the gayest and falls on the first day of the tenth month of the Hijrah or Muslim calendar.

Eid-ul-Adha-

This festival popularly known as Bakri-Id or Eid ul Adha or Eid Ul Zuha is one of the most important festivals in the Muslim calendar. It is observed on the tenth day of the twelfth month in the Muslim calendar. The holiness of the day and the period preceding it makes this a popular time for undertaking the pilgrimage to Mecca.

Muharrum-

The most solemn and colorful Muslim function held in the state of Uttar Pradesh is Muharram. This festival honors the martyrdom of Imam Hussain, the grandson of the Holy Prophet. In all cities and towns Muslims take out impressive processions of colorfully decorated tazias, replicas of the martyr`s tomb at Karbala. The most solemn and impressive Muharram is observed in Lucknow, where gold and silver replicas of old Nawabi times are brought out and men beat their breasts in mourning constantly until blood oozes out.