Former Union Minister and Congress MP Jairam Ramesh has once again called out for a divided Uttar Pradesh. He has repeatedly made a strong pitch to bifurcate the largest state of India. Uttar Pradesh is the most populous state of India with 400 million people living across 2,43286 sq km.[Read More…]
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Facebook, twitter and website of BSP all fake, says Mayawati
BSP leader Mayawati looks to be back with a bang working hard to improve the party’s image preparing battleground for the 2019 general elections. To caution the party workers Mayawati today issued a press release mentioning that the social media sites including facebook, twitter and the website that are in[Read More…]
Mayawati expels BSP Vice President for calling Rahul Gandhi ‘foreigner’
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday expelled party vice-chairperson and national coordinator Jai Prakash Singh after he said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s foreign blood would not allow him to become the prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. According to reports, Mayawati has stated that[Read More…]
Kumaraswamy takes oath as non-BJP opposition puts up unity show
Bengaluru: H.D. Kumaraswamy was on Wednesday sworn in as the 25th Chief Minister of Karnataka at the head of a JD-S-Congress coalition government here in a ceremony that brought together leaders of anti-BJP parties on a single platform exactly a year ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The event[Read More…]
BSP not to support anyone in forthcoming bypolls, says Mayawati
Lucknow: The BSP, which enabled the success of Samajwadi Party (SP) candidates in the Phulpur and Gorakhpur parliamentary bypolls by successfully transferring its votes to them, will in future not play such an “active role”, according to party chief Mayawati. At a meeting with her party leaders, office bearers and[Read More…]
Mayawati hints at SP-BSP alliance in 2019
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati on Monday indicated that her party might align with Samajwadi Party (SP) in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections after the one-time bitter rivals helped defeat the BJP in the Gorakhpur and Phulpur parliamentary bypolls. According the official sources, the four-time Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister[Read More…]
Mayawati names old party loyalist Bhimrao Ambedkar as RS candidate
Lucknow: Laying to rest speculation over naming her brother Anand as the party’s Rajya Sabha candidate, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Tuesday night named old loyalist Bhim Rao Ambedkar as its candidate for the upper House of Parliament. In a statement, former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said there is[Read More…]
Mayawati accuses BJP of criminal negligence in NTPC blast
BSP supremo Mayawati on Monday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of “criminal negligence” and blamed them for the NTPC tragedy in Rae Bareli in which 37 persons died. In a statement issued by the Bahujan Samaj Party, the former Chief Minister said that due[Read More…]
BJP promoting Hindutva; hurting secular fabric: BSP chief Mayawati
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Mayawati on Tuesday accused the BJP governments at the Centre and in Uttar Pradesh of promoting RSS ideology. Addressing a public rally here, the second of her series of 11 public interactions, the former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister said BJP governments in states were out[Read More…]
Why Haryana govt not dismissed? asks Mayawati to PM Modi
Taking a swipe at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 35th Mann Ki Baat over his remarks that violence in the name of faith would not be tolerated and the guilty would be punished, BSP supremo, Mayawati on Monday asked why the Haryana government has not been dismissed after violence by[Read More…]
Shashi Tharoor, Mayawati demands dismissal of Khattar government over Haryana violence
A day after the violence that took lives of 31 people so far and left hundreds of people injured in Haryana along with damaging crores of properties after the rape conviction of Dera Sacha Sauda chief, Gurmeet Ram Rahim on Friday, Congress MP, Shashi Tharoor on Saturday said the Haryana[Read More…]
BSP clarifies mahagathbandhan poster to be ‘untrue’
The Bahujan Samajwadi Party( BSP) on Monday clarified that the poster that went viral on social media was false. Earlier on Sunday, a poster from the party’s official Twitter handle was posted, which showed a number of leaders like Sonia Gandhi, Akhilesh Yadav, Mayawati, Lalu Yadav and Sharad Yadav together[Read More…]
Bihar: Lalu seeing future with Mayawati and Manjhi after Nitish; may form alternative pact
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader, Lalu Prasad Yadav seems to have initiated moves to form an alternative political platform with Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party and former Bihar chief minister, Jitan Ram Manjhi’s Hindustan Awam Morcha (HAM) amid doubts over the continuance of Bihar’s grand alliance government. Sources told Hindustan Times[Read More…]
Mayawati to hit back at NDA with party workers conferences
Mayawati who recently resigned from Rajya Sabha for not being allowed to speak on Dalit atrocities”, will address party workers at divisional conferences from18 September onwards to rally the scheduled castes, her core vote bank, around her party which has been suffering electoral reverses since 2012. Mayawati, who directed the[Read More…]
Mayawati likely to be Mahagathbandhan candidate in UP: Sources
After resigning from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday evening, political corridors are now abuzz with speculations over BSP supremo, Mayawati’s next move. Mayawati is likely to contest the by-poll to the Phulpur Lok Sabha seat, which will be vacated by sitting MP, Keshav Prasad Maurya, who is now deputy chief minister in[Read More…]
BSP chief Mayawati’s resignation accepted by Rajya Sabha Chairman
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, Mayawati’s resignation has been accepted by the Rajya Sabha Chairman, after she resubmits her it in prescribed format. Mayawati resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, hours after she had threatened to quit the Upper House for “not being allowed to speak” about atrocities against[Read More…]
Mayawati resigns from RS, after not ‘being allowed to put across views’
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo, Mayawati resigned from the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, hours after she had threatened to quit the Upper House for “not being allowed to speak” about atrocities against Dalits and minorities. “I was speaking about the atrocities against Dalits, since I belong to that community. But[Read More…]
Monsoon session: Against Dalit atrocity, Mayawati threatens to quit
The second day of monsoon parliament session was stormy as BSP chief, Mayawati threatened to resign from Rajya Sabha. Soon after, the Opposition troops in the well of the House started shouting slogan ‘Dalit virodhi yeh sarkar, nai chalegi.” The opposition raised slogan in Rajya Sabha against the Narendra Modi government[Read More…]
UP CM’s lunch with Dalit a ‘political drama’, says Mayawati
On Thursday, BSP supremo Mayawati slammed UP CM Yogi Adityanath over having lunch with 500 Dalits in Gorakhpur, calling it a nothing but a ‘political drama’ with no intention of benefitting the underprivileged community. She added that the BJP government had an anti-Dalit mindset and was doing little to catch[Read More…]
Mayawati accuses Modi government over attacks by gau rakshaks
On Monday, BSP chief Mayawati criticised the Modi government over the growing violence in the country under the banner of cow protection. She took a jibe at the BJP government saying innocent persons have lost their lives in the name of cow protection and asked if this was the change promised by[Read More…]
RSS, BJP hold ‘peace meets’ in violence-hit Saharanpur
In the wake of ongoing caste-related clashes in Saharanpur in Uttar Pradesh, the RSS and BJP have been meeting prominent people from the Thakur and Dalit communities and have appealed them to maintain peace and solidarity in the area. As per sources, the incidents in Saharanpur are considered to be[Read More…]
Saharanpur SSC and DM sacked over inability to control violence
The UP government on Wednesday sacked Saharanpur SSP Subhash Chandra Dubey and District Magistrate NP Singh over their inability to control the situation in the area, after being freshly hit by violence on Tuesday evening. As per media sources, the SSP, on Wednesday morning assured that 24 people have been[Read More…]
Fresh clashes in Saharanpur after Mayawati’s visit killed one; two injured
Fresh clashes erupted in the already boiling Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday after BSP chief Mayawati’s visit. A Dalit man was killed and several others were reportedly injured in the incident. Reportedly, a group of Dalits threw stones at the houses of some Rajputs before Mayawati’s rally. This[Read More…]
‘Mayawati should quit politics,’ says Union Minister Sanjeev Baliyan
Union Minister Sanjeev Baliyan slammed Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) Chief Mayawati after she alleged that the expelled party leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui is ‘being a blackmailer’. Baliyan even said, the former should take a step back from politics. While referring to the BSP as ‘Mayawati’s shop’ Baliyan said, “These allegations are[Read More…]
Mayawati asked why Muslims did not vote BSP; calls ‘traitor’: Naseemuddin Siddiqui
A day after being sacked from Bahujan Samaj Party, senior leader Naseemuddin Siddiqui has broke his silence about Mayawati on Thursday. Siddiqui has said that the former Uttra Pradesh CM had called and asked him as to ‘why the Muslim community did not vote for BSP’. He alleged that Mayawati[Read More…]