Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is not amused with what's going on in her state. The chief minister trained guns on Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi who undertook a four-day long padyatra that culminated into a much hyped kisan mahapanchayat at Aligarh on Saturday.
As if demolition and re-construction of her favourite structures were not enough, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati got her own statue removed from a prominent spot in Lucknow, where she herself had unveiled the same 45 days ago. The operation, that took everyone by surprise, was carried out on Sunday night in the cover of darkness, with lights in the vicinity being switched off.
India Inc's philanthropic spends have grown by 3.62 per cent to Rs 22,000 crore in FY21 as profits expanded, and a majority of the allocations have been done to pandemic-linked causes, a report said on Tuesday. The report by rating agency Crisil said that while the first wave saw greater spending in cash largely through the PM-CARES Fund, the preference shifted to more direct support through in-kind spends in the second wave. Corporate contributed only Rs 85 crore to the PM-CARES Fund during the second wave between March and June 2021, as against Rs 831 crore to what was classified as 'others'.
The Bahujan Samaj Party will support the bill for creation of a separate Telangana state if it was introduced in the Parliament, the party supremo and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister, Mayawati, said in Hyderabad on Saturday.
In a frontal attack on the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party, the Congress on Saturday pointedly blamed the Mayawati government for the prevailing backwardness and poverty in Bundelkhand area.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's dream projects, including memorials and parks in the name of Dalit icons in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow, would now witness marriages and cultural events with the Akhilesh Yadav government deciding to use the space for public purposes.
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Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati has warned the people against the "communal designs" of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the Bharatiya Janata Party and urged them not to lose their cool in the run-up to the 2017 Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh.
The Opposition also asked the Prime Minister's Office to probe the incident, calling it "shameful.
Taking serious note of alleged obscenity at a cultural event organised in the state health ministry, the Mayawati administration on Thursday ordered suspension of three top officers and four office bearers of the employees union. Action was ordered on the basis of a prima facie report submitted by an inquiry committee, which confirmed that departmental officials organised an obscene dance programme and indulged in drinking during the installation ceremony of new officers.
Indicating that her ultimate goal is New Delhi, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister blatantly displayed her feudal ways in a flamboyant celebration to mark the completion of her 100 days in office
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They alleged that the BSP was getting a 'bad name' because of the 'huge sums' being demanded for party tickets.
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Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati on Monday asked Governor B L Joshi to take cognisance of the prevailing law and order situation in the state and recommend the imposition of President's rule. "Under the prevailing dismal law and order situation and corruption, I would request the governor to himself take cognisance as per the constitutional provisions and recommend imposition of President's rule in the state," Mayawati said.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday launched a scathing attack on the Samajwadi Party government over law and order in Uttar Pradesh, saying it would not be wrong to term the prevailing situation as "anarchic".
Among the other major decisions announced at the meeting was special development plan for Ambedkar villages -- identified on the basis of high dalit population.
Chuni Goswami needs insulin daily and due to the 21-day nationwide lockdown his medical supervisor is not able to attend him but his wife Basanti is 'managing' it somehow. Former India hockey captain Gurbux Singh remembers the World War II and also the partition but said he never witnessed anything like the current crisis.
The BSP, which fielded nearly 100 Muslim candidates, won only four out of the 77 assembly seats dominated by Muslim voters.
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Addressing a press conference in Lucknow, she said: "The July 12 blast was carried out to target my minister, Nand Gopal Nandi, whose popularity had become an eye sore for the entire Opposition, whom he left far behind at the 2007 state assembly election."
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The Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Friday directed the Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government to stop all construction activities along the banks of the Gomati river in Lucknow.
The usually belligerent Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati appears to be coming to terms with harsh realities. And that was well demonstrated in Lucknow on Friday evening when she chose to surprise all by withdrawing the bill -- as well as a parallel ordinance -- for raising a special security force to guard her dream memorials and statues being erected in Lucknow and Noida at a whopping cost of nearly Rs 6,000 crores.
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati will boycott the United Progressive Alliance-II anniversary celebrations and the subsequent dinner in New Delhi on Saturday.
Blaming the Mayawati government for various problems plaguing the people, Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday said 'a sorry state of affairs' continued despite several crores of rupees being provided to Uttar Pradesh by the Centre.
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The Lokayukta has found Siddiqui, who is also Bahujan Samaj Party's general secretary and leader of the opposition in the state legislative council (Vidhan Parishad), prima facie guilty of amassing assets far disproportionate to his known and legitimate sources of income.
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Bahujan Samaj Party supremo and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday challenged the new chief minister Akhilesh Yadav's diktat, changing the names of each of the eight districts carved out by her as well as that of two institutions named after Dalit icons in the state.
Accusing the Centre of overlooking practical aspects of implementing the Right to Education Act, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati sought funds from the United Progressive Alliance government to enforce the law on Saturday.
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday literally stumped state Governor B L Joshi for sitting pretty over a bill and ordinance for raising a new special protection force to guard the Rs 6000-crore memorials and parks dedicated to the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party's dalit icons
A statue of Bahujan Samaj Party supremo and former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in the heart of Lucknow was attacked by vandals on Thursday. The statue was attacked with a hammer, beheaded and its hands were chopped off.
Tasked by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati to probe the invasion by a swarm of bees in which she had seen a controversy, a top police official came out with a report that her composure at the rally had prevented a possible stampede.
Mayawati was severely criticised both inside and outside Parliament as the currency garland controversy sparked demands for a Central Bureau of Investigation probe into the source of money used to make the garland reportedly worth Rs 5 crore.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has refused to give United States Ambassador Timothy J Roemer an appointment.
Out of the 403 seats up for grabs, the BSP had prepared a final list comprising 97 Muslim candidates (12 more than 2012), 87 Dalits and 106 other backwards castes, besides earmarking 113 seats for upper castes -- Brahmins 66, Kshatriyas 36 and others 11.
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