Induction of prominent Muslim leaders from the BSP and Congress over the last year is likely to strengthen Samajwadi Party’s Muslim leadership, even as its veteran leader Azam Khan remains inactive due to jail time and poor health and Asaduddin Owaisi’s entry into the fray in Uttar Pradesh raises fresh challenges. Among the tall Muslim … Read more
The condition of roads in Uttar Pradesh is as bad as the state’s law and order and health system, and is a proof of the Yogi Adityanath government’s failure, BSP President Mayawati charged on Wednesday. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister noted that roads are directly connected to development and said despite all the claims … Read more
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Friday attended a meeting of the party’s election panel in Lucknow ahead of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled to be held next year. The Congress leader is on a two-day visit to Lucknow to hold a series of meetings with the party leaders in Uttar Pradesh. Congress will … Read more
In a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Thursday said there have been efforts since he came to power seven years back to turn the country into a “Hindu Rastra”. While referring to the law against instant triple talaq, the Hyderabad MP mentioned the “plight” of Hindu women, directing … Read more
Narendra Modi became the prime minister of the country twice because of the foolishness of the Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party chiefs, AIMIM president Asaduddin Owaisi asserted on Wednesday. He made the assertion in response to the two parties’ presidents, Akhilesh Yadav and Mayawati, earlier dubbing him as the “vote spoiler” for their parties. … Read more
The AICC committee for sustained agitations is likely to function as a Congress platform to mobilise party rank and file and link them with civil society organisations, activists and intellectuals, and channelise the shared anger against the Modi government on policy and political issues, people familiar with the plan said. The Congress, which haplessly watched … Read more
As political parties compete to woo Brahmins through outreach programmes ahead of the 2022 assembly polls, supporters of the Samajwadi Party have gone a step further. In Ballia on Monday, they held a “Shiv Sevak Sammelan” aimed at a section among the Brahmins — the influential Goswami community. The event was held under the banner … Read more
The BJP kick-started a series of OBC sammelans or meetings of other backward classes in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday to strengthen its appeal among non-Yadav OBCs. The meetings will culminate in a large gathering in Ayodhya on September 18. During the meetings, the BJP will largely talk about the work done for OBCs by its … Read more
Mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari‘s brother and former BSP MLA Sibghatullah Ansari joined the Samajwadi Party along with his supporters here on Saturday, ahead of the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh slated for early next year. Former minister Ambika Chaudhary who had quit the SP to join the BSP also returned to the Samajwadi Party along with … Read more