Supriya Aron, the mayor of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, on Wednesday claimed that local police officials had not allowed her to meet Chief Minister Mayawati during the latter's visit to the city.Aron told mediapersons that she disguised herself in a burqa and sneaked out of her house to meet Mayawati. But she was intercepted by some policemen who forcibly took her to the office of the deputy inspector general of police, where she was detained till the departure of the CM.
The Bahujan Samaj Party will not enter into any alliance for Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand assembly polls, party chief Mayawati said.
The war of words between Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has put the state's political cauldron on the boil.
Governor Shastri says he will take a decision at the earliest.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday ordered action against more than half a dozen officials, including IAS and IPS officers, during surprise inspection of two districts.
The Congress is all set to fire the first major salvo against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati when Rahul Gandhi flags off 10 simultaneous yatras on April 14, which would cover the entire state and carry the message of the Congress and the United Progressive Alliance's achievements and mark the 20 years which the state of Uttar Pradesh has "existed" without Congress rule.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Saturday ordered a Criminal Investigation Department inquiry into the alleged rape of a minor girl by a ruling Bahujan Samaj Party member of Legislative Assembly and his supports in a village of Banda district, about 180 km from Lucknow.
The birth anniversary of Dr Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, whose political influence has surged with the passage of time, on Monday was marked by bitter trading of charges between the ruling BJP and opposition parties as they fought for his legacy.
Targeting Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday said they have "forgotten" the people after becoming big leaders and they "don't feel for them".
In a move that could take her political opponents by surprise, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati is learnt to be working overtime to hold elections this year. This, say sources, will give little time for her political rivals to prepare for the polls.
Two days after the Central Bureau of Investigation decided not to seek review of the Supreme Court order, which had quashed the disproportionate assets case against former UP Chief Minister Mayawati, a review petition was filed before the apex court for reconsidering the verdict.
Waking up to the realisation that state assembly elections in the state are barely 18 months away, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has begun to sound an alert to her party rank and file.
The CBI said it had requested the competent authority to accord sanction for prosecution of Mayawati, Siddique, and state's former environment secretary R K Sharma and another officer R Prasad.
Provoked by the scathing criticism from different quarters on her refusal to implement the Right to Education Act in the country's most populous and poorly literate state, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Monday suddenly seemed to rise to the occasion by claiming that she never meant to oppose education.
Former cabinet minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, widely known as Mayawati's virtual bell-boy, is all set to now give sleepless nights to the state government.
The Amethi MP congratulated Mayawati on her victory and said, "As far as we are concerned, our fight carries on and we are going to sort of bring the Congress back in Uttar Pradesh."
After much dithering, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati finally agreed that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's message will be read out to children in schools across the state on Friday. Her decision, however, came with a rider the PM's letter was read out along with her message across 3 lakh schools in the state.
A senior official in the Chief Minister's Secretariat said Goel had cited "health reasons" for the sudden resignation.
Wooing Brahmins ahead of the assembly election in Uttar Pradesh, Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday supported reservation for the poor and unemployed among upper castes.
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Sunday declared her nephew Akash Anand as her 'uttaradhikari (heir)', a party office-bearer said.
Like in the past, she sent her cabinet colleague and Parliamentary Affairs minister Lalji Verma, who read out a speech on her behalf.
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.
The Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) gave a huge blow to the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance by winning 43 seats out of total 80 Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, as per the Election Commission.
"Their (SP's) people tried to create terror and a number of goons were (involved) in that," she alleged adding, her government will not tolerate any kind of disturbance to the peace in the state.
Playing to the Hindutva gallery, newly-appointed Bharatiya Janata Party secretary Varun Gandhi demanded a ban on cow slaughter and vowed to give UP Chief Minister Mayawati, who had jailed him for his hate speeches against Muslims, the same treatment meted out to him.
Mayawati said that she will address the media on her reported involvement in the National Rural Health Mission scam.
Sahara India Group, led by Subroto Roy, has been served with a notice over 'illegal construction' at its Sahara Sahar township in Gomti Nagar area of Lucknow.
The ruling Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday decided to get rid of all the criminal elements in the party by April 30.An announcement to this effect was reportedly made at a day-long meeting of the party's district chiefs and coordinators, addressed by party supremo and UP Chief Minister Mayawati's close confidant and minister Naseemuddin Siddiqui, on Friday.The party chief has resolved to rid the BSP of all criminal and anti-social elements in the party.
A Bench of Justices Arijit Pasayat and P P Naolekar while reserving its verdict said it would pass a "reasoned order", after the petitioner Ashok Pandey, who is an advocate, pleaded that the matter be referred to a larger bench.
The BJP is leaning on Yogi's 'batenge to katenge' theme to weave a unifying narrative that transcends caste and communal lines.
The Supreme Court on Monday sought the response of former UP Chief Minister Mayawati on a plea seeking her prosecution in the Rs 17 crore Taj corridor scam case without the sanction of the Governor.
Under attack over violence in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party on the issue of land acquisition.
No girl should be allowed to undergo the pain suffered by my daughter who was maimed for resisting a rape attempt, the father of the 16-year-old victim from Uttar Pradesh said on Monday.
Taking strong exception to the central government's decision to return the proposal for division of the state into four parts, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday flayed the United Progressive Alliance regime for what she termed as "total apathy" towards the issue.
Dozens of statues of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati and numerous that of elephants (which also happens to be ruling Bahujan Samaj Party's election symbol) in and around parks and memorials built by her in Lucknow and Noida were being hurriedly veiled from Monday morning by officials in pursuance of the Election Commission's order.
A bench comprising Justice Arijit Passayat and Justice P P Naolekar held that there was no merit in the petition as the apex court had earlier decided on similar issues raised before it.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Friday jumped on the bandwagon demanding the creation of smaller states, declaring that carving Harit Pradesh and Bundelkhand from parts of UP was a 'feasible' idea.In the wake of the Centre's decision to create Telangana by dividing Andhra Pradesh, the UP CM said that her party will back the demand for the creation of smaller states."We back the demand for Harit Pradesh. Smaller states can be better administered," she said.
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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