"Making a person belonging to Dalit caste as the chief minister of Punjab is nothing but an election stunt. I have come to know through the media today that assembly elections in Punjab will be fought under a non-Dalit leader and not under Channi," Mayawati told newspersons in Lucknow
Favouring reservation for Muslims, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday said that 27 per cent Other Backward Class quota should be increased by making constitutional amendment to include backward Muslims in it. "The Bahujan Samaj Party government favours quota for Muslims. The Centre should amend the constitution and increase 27 per cent quota of OBCs to include muslims in it. Our party will support it," Mayawati said addressing a rally in Lucknow.
Recently, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister had managed to split the Congress.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has asked party workers to help the needy on her birthday, instead of coming to the state capital or New Delhi to greet her.
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Wednesday met BSP supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati at her official residence in Lucknow and is understood to have discussed the country's political situation with her.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister is on an overseas tour to woo investors.
The agency had come in for severe criticism from the Supreme Court on November 27, 2006, for taking legal opinion in the case despite the fact that the entire investigating team favouring Mayawati's prosecution.
UP Chief Minister Mayawati can go ahead with construction activities in the Ambedkar Park in Lucknow with the Supreme Court ,on Monday , lifting curbs imposed by the Allahabad High Court
After the 1,200-acre special economic zone at Noida and the Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group's gas-based power plant at Dadri, Lanco Kundapalli's 1,000-Mw Anpara C power project in Sonebhadra district of Uttar Pradesh has come under the scanner
Over 50 people have been arrested after the communal violence in Maharajgaj town, officials said on Tuesday, as markets remained shut and people stayed indoors for a second day in a row amid heavy deployment of police and other security personnel.
In further embarrassment for Chief Minister Mayawati, Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta has now recommended removal of a junior minister, the fifth member of her ministry to be indicted by the anti-corruption ombudsman.
"I welcome private investment in all sectors of the economy. Corporate retailing will not be stopped," the UP chief minister said in an interview.
The act to be named as Uttar Pradesh Organised Crime Control Act (UPOCCA) is aimed at controlling the activities of land mafia, professional criminals, kidnappers and drug racketeers.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday announced a whopping Rs 7,000-crore in financial schemes dedicated to late Bahujan Samaj Party founder Kanshiram and asked party workers to be ready for mid-term polls. Addressing a massive Savdhaan Raho, Aage Badho rally at Ramabai Ambedkar grounds near Lucknow, she cautioned the people against being induced by the 'media, mafia or money' which political rivals Samajwadi Party, Congress and the BJP could use against the BSP
The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear in open court a plea for review of its judgment, which had quashed the disproportionate assets case against former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
In a bid to outsmart rivals ahead of the assembly elections, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday announced bringing a resolution in the House for carving out four new states in the winter session beginning next week.
In a dramatic development in Lucknow on Wednesday, Samajwadi Party legislator Kazim Ali Khan resigned to join the ruling BSP, while Ram Sewak Singh, the lone newly-elected MLA belonging to Uma Bharti's BJP switched loyalties to the ruling party.
After taking on Mayawati on National Rural Health Mission irregularities, the Bharatiya Janata Party in a surprise move on Tuesday, inducted into the party Uttar Pradesh chief minister's former confidant Babu Singh Kushwaha, who is facing Central Bureau Investigations inquiry in the scam.
Under attack over the controversial Rs 685-crore Dalit memorial, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday hit out at Congress saying it had no right to criticise when it has raised so many memorials for the Nehru-Gandhi family across the Yamuna bank in Delhi.
Gandhi, who will be campaigning at a remote area in Tekamgarh in the region, is expected to inspect implementation of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme among other things. The tour by Rahul is being looked at as an attempt by Congress at ascertaining Mayawati's claim to having delivered 'relief' to the region, sources said.
Jumping to the rescue of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati following allegations of her involvement in the NRHM scam, the Bahujan Samaj Party said that though she held the family welfare department for two years she had no role in granting funds under the NRHM.
One of the Congress members said two more legislators would join the group.
The Uttar Pradesh chief minister dismissed reports about the possibility of the dissolution of the state assembly, in view of dissidence in BJP, as 'rumours'.
It was a quiet birthday for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who turned 78 on Sunday. President Pratibha Patil and Vice President Hamid Ansari sent flowers and wished the prime minister on the occasion. Congress president Sonia Gandhi, her son Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati called up Dr Singh and greeted him. Among those who wished the prime minister on the occasion are Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj.
The CBI had on September 11 submitted to the SC the final report of its inquiry into the irregularities committed in the Rs 175 crore Taj Heritage Corridor project.
Mayawati said it became necessary for her to make the announcement as the Congress and some other parties, as part of a "conspiracy", are allegedly trying to create an impression that they would be forging an alliance with the BSP.
'Mayawati and her dedicated band of anonymous workers are already fanning out in each one of the 545 parliamentary constituencies, making rapid inroads into traditional BJP and Congress domains.'
According to the petitioner, Mayawati, being a school teacher, must be asked to explain how she has acquired those assets worth Rs 41 crore within 3 years.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday ridiculed Chief Minister Mayawati for sacking four ministers a day after the announcement of assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, wondering why she had not acted against them earlier.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday took a dig at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP leader Mayawati, saying they had 'fear' of visiting Noida in Gautam Buddh Nagar during their terms at the helm of the state.
The BJP is leaning on Yogi's 'batenge to katenge' theme to weave a unifying narrative that transcends caste and communal lines.
Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Thursday expressed concern over massive loss of life and property in neighbouring Uttarakhand and demanded the central government to declare it as a national calamity.
Referring to her party's pre-poll alliance with the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, she said it was based on "mutual respect" and "honest intentions", adding that "the SP-BSP alliance is perfect enough to defeat the BJP, especially in Uttar Pradesh.
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Jamuna Prasad Nishad was arrested on Tuesday in connection with a shoot-out in Maharajganj town in eastern Uttar Pradesh on Saturday night, in which a police constable was killed.Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati had sacked Nishad, who was the fisheries minister in her cabinet, on Sunday.Mayawati had summoned the minister to her residence and asked him to step down, following which he readily submitted his resignation.
Environment Minister Naseemudin Siddiqui, a close confidant of Chief Minister Mayawati, dealt with files concerning the controversial project.
Chief Minister Mayawati at a hurriedly convened press conference said the minister was being removed "to prevent the opposition parties from taking political advantage from the case."
Faced with one of the worst showing in the Lok Sabha polls, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday dissolved all the committees of the party.
Virtually driven against the wall following indictment by Uttar Pradesh Lokayukta Justice N K Mehrotra, state animal husbandry and dairy development minister Avadhpal Singh Yadav on Wednesday put in his papers, an official spokesman said in Lucknow.
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