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Western UP has 140 Assembly seats spread over 26 districts which will vote in first two phases With the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance going strong after initial hiccups, Bahujan Samaj Party and Bharatiya Janata Party have been forced to rework their strategies in the western belt of   UP Assembly Elections 2017   where Muslim voters are a major force to reckon with. Western UP has 140 Assembly constituencies spread over 26 districts which will go to polls in the first two phases on February 11 and 15. BSP, which was expecting a cake walk in the wake of feud in the Yadav family, to provide a strong alternative to BJP, got a blow with the coming together of two young faces of Indian politics - Akhilesh and Rahul - who do not have any previous record of hobnobbing with the saffron party. To win over Muslims, BSP fielded has fielded as many as 50 Muslim candidates in the first two phases as it felt that Muslim vote along with its own core Dalit vote bank would see ...

Reiterating that his proposal to   ban   entry of Muslims in the US is "temporary", Republican presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump today said it is "just a suggestion" until the issue is worked out. "We have a serious problem, it's a temporary ban, it hasn't been called for yet, nobody's done it, this is just a suggestion until we find out what's going on," Trump told Fox Radio in an interview. "We have radical Islamic terrorism all over the world, you can go to Paris, you can go to San Bernardino, all over the world, if they want to deny it, they can deny it, I don't choose to deny it," he said responding to a question on newly- elected London Mayor Sadiq Khan. Trump said he would grant exemption to the Pakistani- origin mayor to come to the US under his presidency though he was critical of Khan. "Well I assume he denies there is Islamic terrorism. There is Islamic radical terrorism all over the...