An all out war has broken out after SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav replaced son Akhilesh with his brother Shivpal as the party's state unit chief.
JMM leader Hemant Soren was sworn in as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand in a grand ceremony in Ranchi, amid the presence of a galaxy of INDIA bloc leaders. This is Soren's fourth stint as chief minister. The JMM-led alliance won a majority in the recent assembly polls, securing 56 seats in the 81-member assembly.
Boosting the morale of their supporters and signalling unity, the two leaders atop the 'UP Vijay Rath' started the road show from the GPO park in Hazratganj after garlanding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi.
The last day of the campaigning in Lucknow brought all political rivals to converge on the streets of the state capital, throwing normal life out of gear.
Uttar Pradesh's Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said in post on 'X' that an FIR has been registered in the matter at the Nayagaon police station in Etah district.
After Harvard University's invitation to Chief Minister AKhilesh Yadav, his uncle and senior cabinet minister Shivpal Yadav has been invited by John Hopkins University, US, to deliver a lecture on flood control, official sources said in Lucknow.
On possible alliances for the upcoming state polls, the SP president said, "Doors of our party are open for all small parties. Many smaller parties are already with us. More will come with us."
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has directed two ministers in his cabinet as well senior officials in his administration to visit Allahabad in the wake of a stampede at the city's police station. The tragic stampede has claimed the lives of 36 pilgrims who were on their way back after attending the Maha Kumbh Mela at Allahabad on Sunday night.
Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, was on Saturday declared elected unopposed from Kannauj Lok Sabha seat after two candidates in the fray against her withdrew their nominations for the by-poll.
Thursday's large scale violence and arson in the Allahabad University campus was led by none other than local Samajwadi Party leader Abhishek Yadav, who was widely known for his proximity to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.
The group led by Akhilesh Yadav is the Samajwadi Party and is entitled to use its name and reserved symbol bicycle, the three-member Election Commission headed by Nasim Zaidi said in its order.
On chances of taking uncle Shivpal Yadav's Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia along in the polls, he said, "I dont have any problem in this. He and his men will be given due honour".
Rana's poem 'Maa', which is considered one of his most famous works, has a special place in the world of Urdu literature.
Akhilesh Yadav, Uttar Pradesh's new chief minister, will have to take some tough decisions to prove himself to be a good administrator and restore the law and order in the state, feels Congress-turned-Samajwadi Party politician Shahid Siddiqui
The rift between Samajwadi Party strongman Mulayam Singh Yadav and 'obedient' Akhilesh grew even wider with the father openly backing his son's foes in the party
Even as Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav both preferred not to react to their bete noire Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's threat to thrash SP goons, Mulayam's brother and multiple portfolio minister Shivpal Yadav has decided to do a tit for tat.
So who cost the SP more seats in UP? Hemantkumar Shivsaran does a deep dive to find out.
Rita Bahuguna Joshi had fought the 2017 elections and defeated Aparna Yadav, the then SP candidate from Lucknow Cantonment.
Shivpal, who is still a SP legislator, refused to answer whether the Morcha will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Prime facie finding him guilty of violating the model code, the commission asked him to respond by March 7 as to why action should not be taken against him.
Having invited much criticism for his mild mannerisms and soft ways, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav is apparently out to cast himself in a new mould. And the first demonstration of his assertive action came late Saturday evening with the sacking of Khadi and Village Industries Miinister Raja Ram Pandey for use of intemperate language, deriding womanhood.
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said on Tuesday that he sees much promise in Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav, with whom he held an hour-long meeting on Tuesday morning.
He termed the allegations as "just random statements" and demanded that people making such allegations should demonstrate how the EVMs can be "hacked"
"Such kind of incidents should stop. Secondly, everything is being done to rein in the law and order situation. The post holders who are not able to control the law and order situation will have to face action. And, if you give any such information, then action will be taken on it," Yadav told media persons on the recent diktats issued by village councils in Uttar Pradesh's Baghpat district.
"Ramgopal Yadav was expelled from the party for six years on 30 December, 2016. Therefore the party's national convention called by him on 1 January, 2017 was illegal," he asserted.
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