"I wish to reassure all Muslims that no one will be allowed to target common Muslims in the name of terrorist hunt," Mayawati told a specially convened press conference at her official residence in Lucknow on Sunday.
Sunday's landmark decision would set free all male prisoners above the age of 66 years and female prisoners above 62 years, who had completed half their jail terms on the cut off date, June 3, 2007.
Mayawati ordered a large scale reshuffling of IAS and IPS officers.
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".
The train hit the cylinder before coming to a screeching halt on Sunday morning. Due to being hit by the train, the cylinder was thrown away from the tracks, they said.
Mayawati said both the BJP and the SP indulged in empty talks to win the votes of Dalits and Brahmins, but neither safeguarded their interests when in power.
The Union government has ordered the complete withdrawal of the counter-terrorist commando force NSG from VIP security duties and handing over its nine "high-risk" VIPs to the CRPF by next month, official sources said Wednesday.
Claiming that the BJP's government's works in the three holy cities are only follow-ups of her government's initiatives, Mayawati went on to promise, in what is being seen as a subtle shift towards soft Hindutva ahead of the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, to complete all those work on time.
The BJP, which won the Samajwadi Party strongholds of Rampur and Azamgarh in 2022 bypolls, hopes to wrest Mainpuri too.
Earlier in the day, BSP supremo Mayawati said her party will make efforts to not field 'bahubali' (strongmen) or mafia candidates in the upcoming polls and announced that Ansari, who is lodged in a jail in Banda, will not be given a ticket from Mau again.
Training her guns at WikiLeaks for making an expose about her 'whims and fancies', Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Tuesday termed it a conspiracy by the Opposition.
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.
A day after 21 houses were set on fire in Bihar's Nawada district, a top state government official on Thursday said 15 people have been arrested in this connection.
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.
Even as Samajwadi Party Chief Mulayam Singh Yadav and his son Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav both preferred not to react to their bete noire Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati's threat to thrash SP goons, Mulayam's brother and multiple portfolio minister Shivpal Yadav has decided to do a tit for tat.
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.
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.
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.
With the opposition led by Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav getting belligerent over the firing on farmers protesting against inadequate compensation for land acquired for the ambitious Yamuna Expressway project, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati has got into a damage control mode.
Reacting to Mayawati's objection over the absence of any Dalit on the Jan Lokpal Bill draft committee, Agnivesh said, "I do welcome her objection and thank her for raising the issue. But I would also like to ask the UP chief minister to declare whether she had taken any effective steps to curb the rampant corruption in her government.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi also joined Bharat Jodo Yatra in Seelampur.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi had inquired about the health of BSP chief Kanshi Ram.
'UP has shown India and the world how caste and religion can be manipulated to the maximum cynical extent.'
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.
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.
India should dread the prospect of being governed by the dictatorial Mallika-e-Hindustan!
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Wednesday gave marching orders to cabinet minister Ashok Kumar Dohre for allegedly committing forgery and financial irregularities, it was officially disclosed in Lucknow.
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.
She also accused Samajwadi Party chief Malayam Singh Yadav of trying to topple her government by buying MLAs.
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.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said she would prefer going to jail than compromise her principles.
Expelled Bahujan Samaj Party minister Babu Singh Kushwaha, currently facing a Central Bureau of Investigation probe for his alleged involvement in the Rs 8000 crore National Rural Health Mission scam, finally came out in the open against his one-time mentor Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Thursday.
Dated July 19, the letter was delivered in UP CM's office as well as her official residence by a special messenger.
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.
Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief Mayawati has threatened to withdraw support to the United Progressive Alliance government after January 15.
Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Saturday charged the NDA government with discriminating against Dalit icons like Kanshi Ram while awarding Bharat Ratna to Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Madan Mohan Malviya.
Having alerted her partymen on Wednesday about the possibility of an early Lok Sabha poll, Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati is all set to plan her cards for the next electoral battle.
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