Hoping for a reconciliation with the Left, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday said his party had committed a mistake by supporting the UPA-I after the Communists withdrew support on the nuclear deal issue.
The feud in Uttar Pradesh's first family had ended on Saturday after Akhilesh restored all but one portfolio of Shivpal and promised to support him as SP's state unit president, a post from which he was himself removed three days back triggering the power tussle with his uncle.
This is concerning a PIL seeking a CBI inquiry into the assets acquired by them beyond known sources of income.
"Our government is prepared to prove its majority on the floor of the house if so warranted," Yadav said addressing a press conference in Lucknow.
Former defence minister Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday claimed that China could attack India soon and the threat needed to be taken seriously against the backdrop of the 1962 invasion."China is laying claim on several of our states including Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarkhand besides Ladakh region. It is going to attack us soon. The attack can take place any time," the Samajwadi party supremo said in the Lok Sabha during Zero Hour.
Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Tuesday pointedly accused Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati of hounding his party MLA Vijay Misra, prime accused in the life attempt on UP Registration and Stamps Minister Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi in Allahabad three month ago.
The Bench on Tuesday dismissed an interim application moved by Yadav seeking a stay of the CBI inquiry till the conclusion of the ensuing polls in the state.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav announced a state-wide 'jail bharo' agitation on Wednesday against Mayawati government in Uttar Pradesh and asked the Centre to "mend" its policies, but was silent on the issue of withdrawing support from the Congress-led UPA. "The 'jail bharo' agitation will not be symbolic. You all will have to go to jail...I will court arrest in Lucknow," Yadav said at the inaugural session of the party's Special National Conference in Agra.
Against the backdrop of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's attacks on the United Progressive Alliance and the Congress, Union minister Manish Tewari on Friday said the ruling party and the alliance know how to run a coalition. "The UPA and Congress have always shown that they know how to run a coalition and the current UPA government will complete its full term," the Congress leader told reporters.
The confidence vote in the UP assembly is scheduled for September 8.
Fernandes said there was 'no contradiction' in his stand because the NDA was a 'platform of political parties.'
Shivpal, who is still a SP legislator, refused to answer whether the Morcha will contest the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
'It is possible that Akhilesh has set his sights on 2022.' 'By then, his present day enemies will be more or less a spent force while he himself will still have a clean image and, at 49, will be regarded as young.'
Yadav said the killing was the fallout of a gang war.
Even if a formal alliance fails to come through, the SP still has a "tacit understanding" with the Congress which would continue after the elections as well, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav said today.
The CM claimed that the state government had cleared the payment dues for the previous year and the current fiscal year.
Union minister Beni Prasad Verma on Saturday justified the sub-quota within quota for Muslims saying their condition was even worse than backwards.
Yadav had spoken of the possibility of non-Congress parties, including the BJP, coming together under a CMP and asked the Left parties to lead such an alternative.
The Samajawadi Party leader pointed out that foreign companies were being paid twice the amount that was paid to their India counterparts, and demanded that farmers' loans be waived off.
Amid speculation that the Samajwadi Party is trying to woo former Uttarakhand Chief Minister N D Tiwari, Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh on Saturday met the veteran Congress leader in Lucknow.
Senior Indian Police Service officer Amitabh Thakur, who is locked in a tussle with ruling Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and took his fight to the Centre, was on Monday night suspended by the Uttar Pradesh government.
But he doesn't want to shut the door completely on the Yadav family as that could create problems for him in 2019.
Samajwadi party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav on Friday termed tapping of phones of Members of Parliament as a serious issue, and asked the government to take tough action against culprits.
Speaking at a special function organised at the Lohia Park in Lucknow to mark the 45th death anniversary of his party ideologue and highly rated socialist leader Dr Ram Manohar Lohia, the SP patriarch said, "I am keeping a vigilant eye on the activities of all ministers; and let it be loud and clear that any behaviour unbecoming of the high office they are holding, will not miss my attention."
The chairmen of the standing committees have a special status. They can summon any senior officer and convene a meeting at his or her will in any part of the country. The chairman can also take the committee to any state with prior intimation to have an on-the-spot study.
The Samajwadi Party's Mainpuri district unit Thursday gave a written request to the party chief to contest from the Karhal seat and he agreed, sources said.
Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav celebrated his 75th birthday by cutting a 75-foot-long cake at midnight at a grand event in Rampur.
Union Minister Beni Prasad Verma, who has been attacking Mulayam Singh Yadav, on Monday hit out at at the SP leader over communal violence in Uttar Pradesh and claimed there was threat to his life as he was the only Congress leader speaking against Mulayam.
Members in the Lok Sabha on Monday voiced concern over intrusion by Chinese troops in Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir, with the crucial United Progressive Alliance ally Samajwadi Party objecting to the upcoming visit of External Minister Salman Khurshid to Beijing.
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Friday sought to strike an optimistic note saying his party was in touch with the Congress over the tie-up for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections which was "bound to lead to a positive outcome very soon".
Despite implementation of several five year plans, crores of people in the country are deprived of two square meals, Samajwadi Party president Mulayam Singh Yadav on Monday said.
Not only the variety of corporate interests are putting the pressure on every little detail regarding the 2G auction process, but even Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav is lobbying for it openly, reports Sheela Bhatt.
They are likely to meet again on Sunday in the presence of RLD leader Ajit Singh and Congress leader Jagdambika Pal to discuss means to topple the Mayawati government.
Coming from the 'first family' of Uttar Pradesh politics has not always been a cakewalk for Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple, who is trying to shed the dynasty politics product tag and is banking on her "personal" rapport for a win in this seat in Thursday's poll.
The defeat of Dimple Yadav, the young daughter-in-law of Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav to Bollywood actorturned-politician Raj Babbar in the Firozabad Lok Sabha by-election was a writing on the wall.
The Samajwadi Party on Sunday declared that party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav's youngest daughter-in-law, Aparna Yadav, will contest the 2017 Uttar Pradesh assembly polls. S
The Congress said it succeeded in removing the BJP but the Mulayam regime proved no better and 'misused power in a blatant manner'.
Notwithstanding the exit poll that has given Samjawadi Party a fantastic lead, party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, a consummate politician, has sent a feeler to the Congress, say sources in Lucknow.
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