Projections reveal that if the general elections were to be held now, both Congress and BJP will not be able to outdo Bahujan Samaj Party and Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh. The battle for UP is certainly going to be between Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav ...
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has made her prime ministerial ambitions clear during a rally of Bahujan Samaj Party workers. While addressing the rally, she urged her party workers to ensure that she delivers the Independence Day speech from the ...
BSP leader Mayawati makes her prime ministerial ambitions quite clear by stating that her next Independence Day speech would be from the Red Fort. She also urged the party workers to work hard and ensure that the party emerges victorious in the next elections.
Opposing the government's move to allow oil companies to periodically increase the diesel prices, Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati has said that this decision will adversely affect the poor and middle class in India. Terming the move 'anti-people' she has as...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The SC/ST quota bill has been passed by the Rajya Sabha,and the voting in Lok Sabha remains pending. The protesters in UP have been engaging ...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill will take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the House.
After the Lok Sabha was adjourned for the day, following a disagreement on the SC/ST quota bill, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav sends out a stern warning to the UPA. Speaking to the media, Mulayam said that he would pull out support from the UPA if the governmen...
The Rajya Sabha will today vote for the SC/ST promotion quota bill. This is an amendment that the BSP has been strongly pushing and the SP has been opposing. SP has even threatened to withdraw support if the bill is passed in the House.
Newshour | A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely to take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the Hous...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. However, a divide has already appeared and one section states that they are fine with a quota. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely ...
A flash strike has been organized by the government employees in Uttar Pradesh against the SC/ST promotion quota bill. The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely to take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the House. While BS...
The voting on the SC/ST quota bill is likely to take place on Monday. The bill needs two-thirds majority to get passed in the House. While BSP is vouching for the bill, SP is dead against the bill. The Congress has refrained from commenting on the issue.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati says that she was also in favour of giving reservation to people from the upper caste who are economically weak. She further points out that her party was never opposed to quota in promotion to those from the backward classes...
BSP's Mayawati remains firm on her stand about the SC/ST promotion quota bill. She says that the bill has to be passed by the government within two days. SP on the other hand is staunchly against the bill as the party believes that the bill would divide the so...
Adding to the vote woes in the Rajya Sabha for the UPA government, the SP has now announced that it is opposed to the FDI in retail policy. This comes after Mayawati-led BSP pushed for the SC/ST promotion quota bill that SP is dead against.
BSP chief Mayawati announces to the media that the party is against FDI in retail as they believe that it will destroy the livelihoods of small-time farmers and traders. She also reiterated that she wants the SC/ST promotion quota bill to be passed on priority...
The stage is set for a confrontation between the BSP and the SP over the SC/ST bill that might be tabled in the Parliament in the next few days. While BSP wants the bill to be passed even before FDI in retail, the SP is opposed to the bill. If the bill is pass...
A day after she got relief in the Taj Heritage Corridor scam case from the High Court, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief Mayawati landed in fresh trouble with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP) government deciding to conduct an inquiry by Lokayukta into...
News Night | Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has not taken a final decision on extending support for the UPA government. Nonetheless, Mayawati has taken on the Congress over its alleged anti-people polices and even expressed its willingness to opt for ear...
Taking on Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party over its indecision in extending support to the UPA government, Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav says that this is expected from the party. Congress may have a difficult time coordinating their allies as both SP...
Asking her party workers to gear up for early Lok Sabha polls, BSP chief and former Uttar Pradesh CM Mayawati said, the BSP national executive would meet tomorrow and decide whether the party would continue supporting the UPA government. She also attacked the ...
Asking her party workers to gear up for early Lok Sabha polls, Bahujan Samaj Party Chief Mayawati said the BSP national executive would meet tomorrow and decide whether the party would continue supporting the UPA government. She also attacked the Centre over F...
In the speech at her massive 'Sankalp maharally' in Lucknow, BSP chief Mayawati drops hints of an early general elections, well ahead of its scheduled date of 2014. Mayawati also said she will take a decision on supporting the UPA government tomorrow after mee...
Bahujan Samaj Party Chief Mayawati on Tuesday said snap Lok Sabha polls were a possibility, but delayed a decision on supporting the Congress-led UPA government, till tomorrow. She added that the Congress had secretly worked with the Samajwadi Party to defeat ...
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati kicks off her party's 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign with Rashtriya Sankalp Maha Rally at Lucknow's Ramabai Ambedkar Ground today. The party chief has made extensive arrangements for the success of the grand ral...
The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati will kick off her party's 2014 Lok Sabha election campaign with Rashtriya Sankalp Maha Rally at Lucknow's Ramabai Ambedkar Ground on October 9. The party chief has made extensive arrangements for the success of th...
News Night | TMC chief Mamata Banerjee has walked the talk by pulling out support and this seems to be a point of no return. There are many who consider this as an opportunity for the government to push some of its key reforms. Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi ...
The coverage on the Coalgate scam began with the delay in tabling the CAG report on coal allocations in Parliament. This was followed by a 1000-page expose on the Screening Committee's report on the matter. In time, the links of nepotism and impropriety were u...
Facing the heat over Coalgate, so far the government's defence has been that the critical decisions regarding the controversial coal block allocations were being taken in continuation of the policies of previous governments including the NDA government. Howeve...
Hour by hour, session by session, the entire Monsoon session is washed out due to the Coalgate debate. The ruckus and disruption in Parliament have cost the taxpayer an additional 30 crore rupees, if the 1.87 lakh crore rupees loss estimated in the coal alloca...
BJP Spokesperson Prakash Javadekar lashes out at Union Minister Jairam Ramesh for dragging BJP President Nitin Gadkari's key aide into the 'Coalgate' battle. Rubbishing the allegations, the BJP calls Jairam's comments a diversionary tactic and promises to agit...
Taking on the Congress led UPA government, BJP has said that the scuffle between Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Aggarwal and Bahujan Samaj Party MP Avtar Singh Karimpuri in Parliament was staged. BJP spokesperson Ravi Shankar Prasad has said that the script for thi...
RJD Chief Lalu Prasad Yadav speaks out regarding the logjam in the Upper House of Parliament over the SC/ST reservations in promotions Bill. Reiterating the necessity of clearing the Quota Bill, the RJD Chief takes on both the ruling UPA government and the BJP...
The government attempts to table the SC/ST reservations in promotions Bill in the Upper House of Parliament amidst absolute chaos. The BJP-led NDA opposition stubbornly refuses to relent, even temporarily, on its attack against the government. The BJP is deman...
A BSP MP tries to prevent a SP MP from leaving his seat to go and protest in the well of the Rajya Sabha. They struggle against each other, push and shove, all of which is seen by a stunned Upper House. The Samawadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal says he file a compl...
When passions run high, MPs are know to tear paper, shout and throw mics. But on Tuesday, things took on a different colour- two MPs came to the stage of pushing and shoving each other inside the Rajya Sabha. Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal was pushed around...
The scuffle that took place in Rajya Sabha between between Avtar Singh Karimpuri of Bahujan Samaj Party and Naresh Agarwal of Samajwadi Party over the tabling of SC/ST Quota Bill has drown sharp reactions from various corners. Political parties unanimously con...
Two MPs struggle and push each other during the tabling of the SC/ST reservation promotion amendment bill in the Rajya Sabha. The incident looks like a fight between schoolboys. One side is Avtar Singh of the BSP, and other side is Naresh Agarwal from the SP, ...
During the tabling of the amendment for the reservations in promotions to SC/STs in government jobs, BSP MP Avtar Singh was seen trying to prevent SP MP Naresh Agarwal from reaching the well of the house. The Samajwadi party leaders wanted to express disconten...
Samajwadi Party MP Naresh Agarwal was prevented by a BSP MP Avtar Singh from going to the well of the house to protest the tabling of the amendment bill related to the reservations in promotions for the SC/STs. This lead to a scuffle in the Rajya Sabha, with t...
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati lashes out at Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav by saying that the law and order situation in UP is for all to see.
An IPS officer, Narendra Kumar, is mowed to death as he tries to intercept a tractor laden with illegally mined stones in Morena district of Madhya Pradesh.
As the UP Assembly elections results emerge, the Congress has taken a back seat while the Samajwadi Party rise as the single largest outfit with the BJP trailing behind.
On the eve of counting of votes, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav exudes quiet confidence, stating that the party workers have worked hard to reach this far.
Senior BJP leader Vinay Katiyar says that the party would prefer to sit in the Opposition rather than support the SP or the BSP, in government formation in Uttar Pradesh.
Beni Prasad Verma must know what to say, says Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav, reacting to the Congress leader's comment on a post-poll alliance with the BSP in Uttar Pradesh.
Beni Prasad Verma's remark on post-poll alliances in Uttar Pradesh will have no impact on the further course of action, says Congress leader Pramod Tiwari.