Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday reached out to Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati ahead of winter session of Parliament, but she remained evasive on her party's stand on plans by Trinamool Congress to bring a motion against Foreign Direct Investment.
Arun took over as police chief and vowed to bring rowdies to their knees and said rowdy elements would be taught 'in the language they understand.'
Neerja Chowdhury analyses why BSP supremo Mayawati is bargaining hard with the UPA government
The rapprochement could open the door to an anti-saffron alliance for the 2019 general elections, reports Archis Mohan.
Electoral setbacks and thwarted ambition can have an unpredictable effect on leaders,, observes Aditi Phadnis.
The expelled BJP leader can be spotted posing happily for a picture with four others at the backdrop of a Lord Shiva temple in Deogarh in Jharkhand.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati supported Centre's food security scheme but disapproved of its step to bring an ordinance, saying the measure should have been discussed in Parliament and passed with consensus.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Wednesday kept up the suspense on continuance of outside support to the United Progressive Alliance government at the Centre, saying a decision on the issue will be taken soon. She also asked party cadres to be ready for snap polls which "can take place any time" in view of the "instability" at the Centre.
Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Wednesday suggested that if Lalu Prasad Yadav takes initiative, he does not mind joining hands with Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh.
Mayawati said that she will address the media on her reported involvement in the National Rural Health Mission scam.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati dubbed the austerity measures initiated by the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance as a "drama".
BIf you know this BJP, it will now go forward to Jharkhand and Maharashtra as if June 2024 never happened, notes Shekhar Gupta.
She said she would remain ever ready as usual to pursue the humanitarian missions of sants, gurus and great men, born in the Dalit, Adivasi and other backward classes from time to time.
Have the Dalits disowned Mayawati entirely or will they return to save her, asks Aditi Phadnis
As controversy raged over Yati Narsinghanand's objectionable remarks against Prophet Muhammad, his supporters on Sunday alleged that the Dasna temple head priest is being illegally kept in detention by police, which denied the claim.
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh made it amply evident in Lucknow on Monday that it was his threat to expose Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati that prompted her to sit pretty on the First Investigation Report registered in a Kanpur police station against him.
After walking free from jail, expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Dayashankar Singh on Sunday fired a fresh salvo at Mayawati claiming she "auctioned" tickets and dared her to fight against his wife on any unreserved seat in the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections next year.
Karnataka has the highest number of medical seats in the country at 11,745, of which 3,750 seats were in government institutions and 7,995 seats were in private colleges.
The Modi govt is continuously indulging in theatrics on issues related to Dalits and backwards and any more drama on the issue will not get them any political mileage, Mayawati said.
During the hearing, the bench asked the counsel for EC as to what action they have taken against Mayawati and Yogi Adityanath for alleged hate speeches.
Being repeatedly attacked by her political adversaries for collecting donations on her birthday Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister today said the system will be abolished from next year.
"We will carve out a separate Vidarbha state and name it as Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Vidarbha Rajya," Mayawati told reporters in Mumbai.
Mayawati said all the memorials that needed to be built in honour of Dalit icons have been built.
Polling for the first phase of the seven-phase Lok Sabha elections commences on Friday, April 19, 2024, with 102 seats out of 543 seats going to the polls.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Thursday launched a frontal attack on Bharatiya Janata Party's PM candidate Narendra Modi saying the country will be "ruined" due to spike in communal riots if he is voted to power.
The BJP, which contested more seats this time than in 2019 but is likely to fall short of the magic figure of 272, garnered 36.91 per cent of the total votes polled, a drop of around 0.39 percentage points as of 6.15 pm.
Mayawati must not be shattered right now. Had she not done what she did, she would have lost the Dalit votebank -- that would have been the end of her political career. As someone told me during the elections, the BSP was not fighting this election for power. It was fighting this election to save its core, says Shivam Vij.
Dayashankar's wife Swati Singh, who is also the head of the BJP women's wing, had won the assembly poll from Sarojini Nagar seat of Lucknow.
BSP chief says Ambedkar talked of separate electorates for Dalits; didn't believe in Hindutva.
In a setback to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, the Delhi high court on Friday allowed the income-tax department to go ahead with re-assessment of her income for the financial year 2001-02. A bench headed by Justice Vikramajit Sen dismissed Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati's plea seeking to restrain the department from re-assessing her income, claiming that a prior mandatory notice was not served on her.
The nationwide ban comes into force at 6 am Tuesday, the poll panel said.
The move by the district administration in the Sonia-Mayawati battle for the political turf of Uttar Pradesh came hours after the Allahabad high court virtually stayed the state government's decision cancelling the land allotment for a railway project in Sonia's Lok Sabha constituency in Rae Bareily.
The Samajwadi Party's anti-Mayawati stir turned violent on Thursday as activists went on a rampage across Uttar Pradesh burning hundreds of effigies of the chief minister.
India should dread the prospect of being governed by the dictatorial Mallika-e-Hindustan!
K Natwar Singh wore many hats as he straddled the worlds of diplomacy, politics and writing but what remained consistent across decades was his sharp-wit and plainspeaking.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Sunday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress for "double-crossing" the common man by serving the interests of capitalists.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi had inquired about the health of BSP chief Kanshi Ram.
The statue of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samajwadi Parrty supremo Mayawati was vandalised by alleged Nav Nirman Sena activists in Gomti Nagar area in Lucknow. They also distributed visuals of the statue being broken.
Demanding the resignation of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati over law and order situation in the state, the Samajwadi Party on Monday said she should take moral responsibility for the current situation in the state which was being called "balatkari pradesh" following a spate of rape incidents.
Mayawati comes to the battle field armed with a Dalit-Brahmin-Muslim combination once again. She has given around 10 seats to Other Backward Classes and three each to the Baniya and Thakur communities. If she wins impressively, it will be because of her "inclusive politics".
