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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 […]

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, […]

"The BJP is short of hitting a century. They have given tickets to 99 criminals," he said in a tweet on Sunday.

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. […]

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 […]

He described the SP as a 'washing machine where RSS men become secular'.

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 […]

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 […]

Both the leaders and their supporters had quit the BJP after Swami Prasad Maurya resigned.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Muzaffarnagar: The Muzaffarnagar riots were the worst after the Partition and the then ruling Samajwadi Party failed to provided justice to the victims, alleged AIMIM chief Asadudin Owaisi here on Wednesday. The Hyderabad MP said this while addressing a party rally here. People were forced to leave their homes and mosques, he claimed. The MP […]

Uttar Pradesh Minister Siddhartha Nath Singh said in a statement, that Akhilesh had no responsibility towards society

Akhilesh had recently visited Haridwar where he met a number of saints and seers.

The government on Thursday revoked a steep interest rate cut on small savings schemes such as PPF and NSC, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying it was an oversight.

The arrogance of power has made the government sitting in New Delhi "blind and deaf" to the suffering of millions of farmers in the country, the SP leader told the gathering.

She sat in the women's enclosure where she interacted with the female family members.

SP president Akhilesh Yadav called the contentious laws a clamp for the farmers.

Yadav's party has been backing the farmers' stir against three new agri laws.