UP Chief Election Officer Navdeep Rinwa addressed allegations concerning burqa checks at polling stations. He clarified that identity verification is a routine procedure and that complaints should be directed to police officers. Rinwa announced the suspension of five officials following a complaint by Akhilesh Yadav about women being asked to remove burqas for identity verification. … Read more
Akhilesh Yadav | Photo Credit: PTI Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav in an apparent dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday (September 9, 2024) said he is not offended by remarks made by “someone on his way out”. Criticising the law and order situation in the state, Mr. Yadav said the the … Read more
From a street fighter to a Parliamentarian, Chandra Shekhar Azad has come a long way in a decade-long career and his victory in Nagina has stirred the pot of Dalit politics in the State with around 21% Scheduled Caste population that has been ruled by a Dalit Chief Minister four times. However, despite winning the … Read more
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav won the Kannauj Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday by a margin of 1,70,000 votes over his nearest rival and BJP MP Subrata Pathak. According to Election Commission data, Yadav got 6,42,292 votes while Pathak polled 4,71,370 votes. BSP’s Imran Bin Zafar got 81,639 votes. Under Yadav’s leadership, … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a roadshow for Lok Sabha polls, in Ayodhya. File photo | Photo Credit: ANI The campaign for Uttar Pradesh, politically the most critical state, which elects 80 MPs to the lower house of parliament, saw the major political parties pitching their campaign agendas across the State in intense campaigning. The … Read more
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi during the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, in Moradabad, Saturday, on February 24. | Photo Credit: PTI The Rahul Gandhi-led Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on February 24 resumed from Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh with Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra joining her brother in the yatra’s final leg in … Read more
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said he is “unlikely” to join Congress‘ “Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra” led by Rahul Gandhi. When asked about this at a press conference at the party office here, Yadav said, “Neither the Congress nor the BJP invites us to their programmes.” Yadav, who flagged off “Samvidhan Bachao, Desh … Read more
Akhilesh Yadav. File | Photo Credit: PTI Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav on November 7 claimed that the Congress wants the “Samajwadi ideology” to perish, but his party’s resolve is to spread it further. Mr. Yadav was talking to media persons after paying obeisance at Ramraja Temple in Orchha of Niwari district in Bundelkhand … Read more
BRS president and Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with SP president and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister in a meeting at Hyderabad on Monday. | Photo Credit: Arrangement Former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav and president of Samajwadi Party (SP), one of the key constituents of the anti-BJP alliance taking shape ahead of … Read more
BSP supremo Mayawati. | Photo Credit: Sandeep Saxena Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Wednesday urged people from Dalit, Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Muslim communities to be wary of the Samajwadi Party’s agenda in reaching out to them. In response to SP president Akhilesh Yadav unveiling a statue of BSP founder Kanshi Ram … Read more