Chandrashekhar Rao recalled that Mulayam Singh Yadav joined politics drawing inspiration from popular socialist leaders Ram Manohar Lohia and freedom fighter Raj Narayan.
Lucknow: Deepening the crisis in Congress further, Kapil Sibal, a prominent face of the G-23 group of the dissenting leaders, has resigned from the party and filed nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections as an independent on Wednesday in Lucknow backed by the Samajwadi Party (SP). Sibal filed his nomination papers from Uttar Pradesh in […]
The BJP is getting a taste of its own medicine. A party that revels in engineering defections in rival parties to shore up its numbers is now facing desertions from its own ranks in the poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. A string of exits, including some senior Ministers and legislators, has put the saffron party on the […]
Lucknow: All political parties may have vowed to keep away from tainted candidates but as elections knock on the door, they seem more concerned about winnability than their image. An interesting development in the elections this time is that both the BJP and Samajwadi Party (SP) are unwilling to take these ‘tainted’ (read criminals) leaders […]
Lucknow: The ‘Farq Saaf Hai’ war between the BJP and Samajwadi Party (SP) in Uttar Pradesh is now moving beyond social media and is becoming visible on hoardings and newspapers too. Lucknow woke up on Thursday to full page advertisements in newspapers saying ‘Bahut Farq Hai’. The advertisement put out by a SP leader listed […]