SAMAJWADI PARTY

LUCKNOW: A day after Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav said that he will consult the people of Azamgarh on contesting assembly elections, he may contest the elections from his family pocket borough of Mainpuri’s Karhal seat. Top Samajwadi Party sources says that Akhilesh Yadav might contest from Karhal […]

KAIRANA: Sitting inside the corner of his grocery shop in the Chowk Bazaar in UP’s Kairana, Varun Singhal, looks taut at the memory of a gory incident that turned his family’s life upside down. His brother Vinod Kumar Singhal was shot dead in full public glare with bullets pumped inside him, a brutal crime that triggered […]

LUCKNOW: Hours after Aparna Yadav Bisht, the younger daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party (SP) patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), SP supremo Akhilesh Yadav said that he hopes that “she will work to save democracy and the constitution”. Congratulating his sister-in-law on her political move, the SP chief told a media […]

KAIRANA(SHAMLI): The battle-lines have been drawn.  Ahead of first phase of Uttar Pradesh elections on February 10, the poll plot has shifted to Kairana, the hotbed of communal violence since 2014 that saw the exodus  of several Hindus families.  But was the tension always simmering between Hindus vs Muslims here? No.  BJP’s candidate Mriganka Singh […]

LUCKNOW: Not even a month to go to polls, and the political scene in Uttar Pradesh is undergoing a massive change. Disgruntled members of parties are opting out of existing setups and making a beeline for greener pastures. Days after several BJP ministers and MLAs resigned, most have subsequently joined Samajwadi Party (SP). Among those […]

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav took a swipe at Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over the desertions in the BJP saying that had Yogi known how to play cricket, he would have still missed the catch. Addressing a virtual rally at Party headquarters here after inducting rebel BJP […]

LUCKNOW: Swami Prasad Maurya on Friday after joining the Samajwadi Party slammed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister for his 80 versus 20 statement and said that it is 85 versus 15 and even in 15 per cent there is division. Addressing the crowd at the Samajwadi Party (SP) headquarters in the presence of party supremo, Akhilesh […]

LUCKNOW: Eyeing the Muslim-Yadav pie that has also become both a magnet and bane for the Samajwadi Party (SP) since 2014 Lok Sabha while BJP has sailed over every election on the back of other chunkier castes of Uttar Pradesh, the regional party with socialist credentials on Thursday teamed up with Rashtriya Lok Dal  (RLD) […]

KANNAUJ/KANPUR:  The six-day long investigation spread across Kanpur and Kannauj at two residences of businessman and perfume-maker Peeyush Jain has discovered that a walking closet was used since 2010 by him to stash unaccounted cash, that stands at Rs 197-crore even as directorate general of GST intelligence (DGGI), a law enforcement agency under the Union […]

KANPUR: Looks like the political battle is intensifying in Uttar Pradesh, as incidences of possible disruptions seem to be cropping up more frequently. The Kanpur Police claims to have foiled an attempt to disrupt Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s programme on Tuesday. The Police have arrested the office bearers of Samajwadi Party (SP) in this connection […]