File photo of Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav | Photo Credit: ANI Amid continuous attacks by the Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on the Congress, Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders are hopeful that a kind of alliance or tactical understanding with like-minded Opposition parties including the SP may happen in the run-up to the … Read more
Samajwadi Party leaders raise slogans at the joint sitting of both Houses of the State during the Budget Session of Uttar Pradesh Assembly, at Vidhan Bhawan in Lucknow on February 20, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI The Uttar Pradesh Assembly started on a stormy note on February 20 with the Opposition Samajwadi Party (SP) disrupting … Read more
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi with Uttar Pradesh party chief Brijlal Khabri during the party’s Bharat Jodo Yatra, at Ailum village, Shamli district, Uttar Pradesh. Photo: Twitter/@INCIndia via ANI After spurning the Congress’s invite to participate in the Bharat Jodo Yatra, Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav attended the Bharat Rashtra Samithi’s recent show of strength … Read more
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Friday cautioned the public regarding the Har Ghar Tiranga campaign. He said the BJP can also cause ‘danga’ (riots) during the Yatra. The campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims at evoking a feeling of patriotism by exhorting people across the country to hoist the national flag between … Read more
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday said 47 years have passed since the Emergency was imposed in the country, but even today, the memories of the events that unfolded on June 25, 1975 send a chill down the spine. Even during ‘Amrit Kaal’ — the 25-year lead-up to the centenary year of independence in … Read more
The second day of the budget session in UP legislative assembly saw a remark by deputy chief minister Keshav Prasad Maurya evoke an angry retort from SP chief and leader of opposition Akhilesh Yadav, compelling chief minister Yogi Adityanath to intervene. Yadav spoke at length for about an hour in the assembly, where he highlighted, … Read more
Senior SP legislator Azam Khan and sulking socialist leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Sunday skipped the party MLAs’ meet ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly session. Shivpal had earlier too skipped the party MLAs’ meeting amid differences with his nephew and Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav. Shivpal had parted ways with Akhilesh in 2017 … Read more
Sulking socialist leader Shivpal Singh Yadav on Thursday took on Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav over a remark alluding to his apparent closeness to the ruling BJP, and dared him to expel him from the SP legislature party. Shivpal Yadav, who is Akhilesh Yadav’s uncle and heads his own Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia), won the … Read more
Lucknow, With Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath left chasing the Opposition on a bulldozer, the state has been caught in the “grip of anarchy and jungle raj”, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav alleged on Saturday. Yadav made the allegation in the wake of five members of a family found dead in their home in … Read more
The Samajwadi Party‘s Rajya Sabha member Sukhram Singh Yadav has met Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath here, triggering speculations he might switch over to the BJP. During the meeting at chief minister’s residence here on Thursday, Yadav was accompanied by his family including son Mohit, who had recently joined the BJP. On being asked … Read more