Having a considerable sway over various castes, over a dozen smaller parties in Uttar Pradesh are bargaining hard with mainline parties like the BJP and Samajwadi Party ahead of the crucial state elections early next year. These caste-centric parties add heft to the bigger parties like the BJP, SP, BSP and Congress in the election … Read more
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday hit out at the Congress for accusing her party of having a tacit understanding with the BJP, saying the ‘C’ in its name stands for “cunning”. Reacting to her remarks, UP Congress spokesperson Ashok Singh said every voter in Uttar Pradesh is saying that the BSP is the … Read more
Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Samajwadi Party is upbeat about its growing base among Dalits as several prominent Bahujan Samaj Party leaders have joined the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP recently, with many more expected to switch sides in the coming days. The former BSP leaders have been pressed into action by the … Read more
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati said her party will field its candidates in all 403 seats in Uttar Pradesh in next year’s assembly election, making it clear that she will not enter into any alliance in the state. Talking to media persons in Lucknow after paying tributes to BSP founder Kanshi Ram on his … Read more
BHOPAL: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Saturday expressed confidence that it would emerge as a “kingmaker” by winning at least 10 out of the 28 Assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh, where bypolls would be held on November 3. The Mayawati-led party currently has two MLAs in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, whose effective strength has … Read more
New Delhi: The opposition is set to raise the Hathras incident in the upcoming Bihar assembly election as well as the bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh in an attempt to sway Dalit votes in its favour. RJD spokesman Mritunjay Tiwari said the incident – involving the alleged gang-rape of a 19-year-old Dalit girl … Read more
By Rameesh KailasamBudget 2020 introduced Section 194-O of the Income-Tax (I-T) Act. Its primary intent was to widen the tax base by bringing the ecommerce ecosystem into it. Participants in this ecosystem, it was believed, neither paid taxes nor filed their tax returns, thereby escaping tax liability.194-O exempted non-resident ecommerce participants, set a ceiling limit … Read more
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday took a veiled dig at the BSP, alleging that the whip issued by it to its MLAs in Rajasthan is a clean chit to those who “murdered” democracy and the Constitution. The BSP on Sunday issued a whip to six MLAs, who had left the party to … Read more
NEW DELHI: BJP is planning to file an appeal in the Rajasthan High Court to question the constitutional validity of six BSP MLAs joining Congress in Rajasthan last September. BJP’s contention is that the “merger of two national political parties at the state level” were not as per constitutional procedure. BSP too could become a … Read more