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New Delhi: A crucial meeting of opposition parties convened by Mamata Banerjee to build consensus on fielding a joint candidate against the NDA in the presidential election began here on Wednesday with leaders of at least 17 parties in attendance. Leaders of the Congress, Samajwadi Party, NCP, DMK, RJD and the Left parties attended the […]
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By Arun Sinha The BJP’s claim that its victory in Uttar Pradesh was a victory against casteism does not have any legs to stand on. It was definitely a tempestuous victory against the Samajwadi Party, which while relying predominantly upon the Yadav vote, tried to mobilise Other Backward Classes, but that victory was not a […]
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Seen as the semi-final battle before the 2024 general elections, the outcome of the Assembly elections in five States, including the most populous Uttar Pradesh, contains crucial political messages. The key among them is that the BJP continues to reap the electoral harvest largely because of the absence of a cohesive alternative political formation. The […]
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New Delhi: Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) is poised to return to power with a comfortable majority for an unprecedented second term in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is on course to a historic victory in Punjab, according to election results and trends on Thursday. In the other two states of Manipur […]
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Counting of votes for the 403 assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh began on Thursday morning with a three-layer security in place and cameras installed at all counting centres.
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Hyderabad: The initiative launched by the TRS President and Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao to build a better India appears to have found resonance among people from different parts of the country. This is evident from the flexi banners that adorned the cities of Mumbai, New Delhi, Varanasi and now Ranchi, which Chandrashekhar Rao visited. Perhaps […]
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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) President Akhilesh Yadav has said that an insult to the bicycle was an insult to the nation. Reacting to Prime Minister Narendra Modi statement that the Ahmedabad serial blast perpetrators had planted bombs on bicycles and that the SP’s election symbol too happens to be a bicycle, Akhilesh Yadav said that […]
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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav has said that the ruling BJP was set to be removed from power. He said the BJP was losing ground and, as the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections progress and the people of Azamgarh, Ballia, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra vote, the saffron party will be completely routed. “We have done […]
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Lucknow: Fifty-five seats spread across nine districts, including some in Rohilkhand region, will go to polls on Monday in the second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh which will see senior Samajwadi Party leader Mohammad Azam Khan and state Finance Minister Suresh Khanna trying their luck at the hustings. As many as 586 candidates are […]
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By Ratan Mani Lal Defections prior to any election are not uncommon in Uttar Pradesh. In the Assembly elections in 2012 and 2017 too several leaders had quit one party and joined another, with varying results. But the defections this year have been remarkable in the sense that the many defectors are not only high-profile, […]
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"The BJP is short of hitting a century. They have given tickets to 99 criminals," he said in a tweet on Sunday.
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Lucknow: Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Friday alleged that he was stranded in Delhi as his helicopter was not allowed to fly to UP’s Muzaffarnagar for an election programme. In a tweet in Hindi, the SP president posted a picture with the helicopter in the background and said no reason was given for it. […]
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Lakhimpur Kheri: Samajwadi Party spokesman Zahid Ali Khan, 60, has been grievously injured after he was attacked by a stray bull on Wednesday night. Khan was on his way to make arrangements for the inauguration of the new party office on Wednesday night, when a stray bull tossed him around. He has been admitted to […]
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He described the SP as a 'washing machine where RSS men become secular'.
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Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party on Sunday released a list of 30 star campaigners for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election. Senior party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, his son and party president Akhilesh Yadav, daughter-in-law Dimple Yadav, Rajya Sabha MP Jaya Bachchan, party secretary general Ram Gopal Yadav, and MLA Swami Prasad Maurya […]
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New Delhi: Bookies in Uttar Pradesh Pradesh’s Hapur-Meerut, running the ‘Satta Bazaar’, are betting high on the ruling BJP to triumph in the February-March Assembly elections, giving it around 230 of the total 403 seats. The Samajwadi Party comes second with 130 seats. The bookies are not giving seats to the Congress and the Aam […]
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Both the leaders and their supporters had quit the BJP after Swami Prasad Maurya resigned.
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New Delhi: Terming Asaduddin Owaisi as the ‘B team’ of Samajwadi Party (SP), Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma alleged on Monday that the AIMIM chief is acting like an election agent for the SP and BSP. Talking to the media after a review meeting on the functioning of BJP-ruled states at the party […]
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Lucknow: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh has demanded that the income of Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav income be investigated. State MSME Minister and government spokesperson Siddharth Nath Singh questioned Yadav’s support to certain members of his party who were raided by the income tax department recently. He accused Akhilesh Yadav of […]
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New Delhi: Upset over alleged “personal” remarks made against her, Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Bachchan on Monday lashed out at the ruling BJP in Rajya Sabha with a “curse” that it will face bad days soon. An agitated Bachchan also told the chair that he should be fair and alleged that an attempt was being […]